Bond counsel

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.

Only three spots in the top 10 remained the same from a year ago, as issuance grew and firm positions changed in 2021.

Smith, who joined the Michigan-based law firm in 2016, will lead a 16-member team.

Crumbaker has experience representing bondholders and corporate trust companies in cases related to distressed or defaulted high-yield tax-exempt bonds.

McCall Parkhurst & Horton and Norton Rose Fulbright moved up in 2020 to second and third.

Mary Kimura was one of 25 female attorneys promoted to partner globally.

Law firm appoints Robert Labes to head its public and infrastructure finance practice group with hopes for expansion if an infrastructure bill comes to fruition.

Stanford Ladner of Butler Snow has been listed in the 2020 edition of “New York Metro Super Lawyers."

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.