Bond counsel

Senior Associate, Orrick

The top municipal bond counsel firms easily surpassed 2019's pace of par amount. Year-to-date, the top-ranked firms have totaled $326.46 billion compared with last year's number of $265.99 billion.

Bryant Miller Olive PA has practiced public finance and governmental law across the Sunshine State and the Southeast for five decades.

The New York-based minority-owned firm now has a Chicago office led by veteran bond attorney Chuck Katz.

Guarnaccia is a partner at Ballard Spahr in Baltimore.

The Los Angeles lawyer founded her own firm and ran it for two decades before Polsinelli acquired it in 2011 to enter California. She retires in October.

There were a few changes in the top municipal bond counsel rankings, with the only spots staying the same numbers one and 10.

Bond lawyer Rebecca Lawrence has joined Ballard Spahr

Clark Hill senior counsel Andrew Maher will serve a one-year term.

Municipal bond counsels accumulated $87.02 billion, up from the $75.14 billion in the first three months of 2019. The top spot remained the same but the rest of the top 10 saw a plethora of changes.

Stepan Haytayan was named senior counsel and Mauricio Salazar has joined as an associate.

Thomas Bruder, Lauren Trialonas and Jennifer Cosper were named principals in the firm’s Public & Infrastructure Finance practice.

Benjamin, who is mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, will co-chair the law firm's public finance and affordable housing practices.

Two veteran Chicago-based public finance attorneys — Lance Tyson and Glenn Weinstein — are joining Miller Canfield's team.

Neveu works in Butler Snow’s New Orleans office and has represented different issuers while focusing on affordable housing finance.

Ballard Spahr’s public finance group is increasing in size as it grows beyond traditional tax-exempt financings.

Charles Anthony “Tony” Solimine has joined the public finance leadership of New Jersey law firm Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer.

Charles Lynn Almond, 70, partner at Bracewell, Vinson & Elkins, became a nationally recognized expert on public finance law over a 45-year career.

Darren C. McHugh joins Hunton's Austin office as partner. He was previously as shareholder at Stradling in Colorado.

G. Scott Rafshoon, a veteran expert in P3s, has been hired as a partner in Squire Patton Boggs’ Atlanta office.