Bond counsel

Steven Washington joined Chapman and Cutler this week as a partner.

Frank DeGuire rejoined Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee this week after working as an in-house corporate attorney.

The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement bill,if passed, could wipe out some hesitations for issuers hoping to finance their own marijuana facilities.

Arent Fox and Schiff Hardin are poised to expand their public finance operations, creating a firm with more than 600 attorneys and public finance practices in four major U.S. cities.

Alderman Patrick Daley Thompson, the grandson and nephew of Chicago mayors, was found guilty of federal charges of making false statement and tax fraud.

Only one firm remained in the same spot they were at in 2020, while the rest of the rankings saw big shifts from a year prior.

The new office is the firm’s first in the Southeast region.

Malveaux will take the reins from Carol Polumbo in 2022 at the Southwest's top bond counsel firm.

Lokken is a public finance attorney with 20 years of experience representing issuers, borrowers, underwriters and purchasers.

Robert "Bob" Thrun, who died this month aged 90, expanded the Thrun Law Firm's role in Michigan public finance law.

Kutak Rock will open a law office in Tallahassee next month, to be staffed with 10 hires from Hopping Green & Sams.

Tax-exempt bonds are a very different area of the law.

William Estes has overseen multibillion-dollar design-build and infrastructure developments for government agencies in New York.

Nathan Coco and Megan Preusker joined the firm this month, deepening the expertise offered by the firm's bankruptcy and restructuring practice.

The forthcoming Texas law bans businesses from state contracts if their policies are said to discriminate against the firearms industry.

The IRS is seeking comments on a change that may benefit many issuers.

The bond counsel rankings saw plenty of moves, except at the top spot where Orrick took a commanding lead.

Locke Lord's Texas public finance team continues to expand with the addition of Arnold Cantu from Norton Rose Fulbright.

The team from Bank of New York Mellon will notably expand Ice Miller's arbitrage rebate compliance practice as a component of its public finance services.

Grace Dunlap, Chair of the Board at Bryant Miller Olive P.A., has been honored with the 2020 Ralph A. Marsicano Award presented by the City, County and Local Government Law section of the Florida Bar.