Bond counsel

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.

Marybeth Frantz Orsini has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in the firm’s public finance group.

The top municipal bond counsel saw $265.58 billion of business in the first three quarters of 2019, more than the $237.49 billion the firms did in the same period last year.

The Berkeley County School District and its former financial advisors and bond counsel said settlement talks were unsuccessful.

From its founding by a single lawyer in 1919, the century-old firm became Texas' dominant law firm in public finance.

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