Public finance

"Patrick has an excellent ability for not only understanding the complexities of the healthcare sector but connecting with our customers and telling the credit story in a way that provides meaningful and value-driven analysis to the market," said S&P Senior Director Stephen Infranco.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic Gretchen Sherwood has co-lead Nixon Peabody's Project Finance and Public Finance practice groups' 50 member bi-weekly team calls.

Alice Livingston "wanted nothing to do with" bonds when growing up, but found her love for communications meshes well with the municipal market.

"I am able to have a sophisticated practice while living in West Virginia and being able to see the impact of projects that I have worked on in my local community," said Carrie Cecil.   

Mentoring and a passion for helping people cultivate and achieve goals remain important to Matthew Stitt.

Steve Scharff has proven himself to be a valuable player on the business side of the muni business by changing the firm's approach to writing official statements.

Chris Wimsatt's work to raise capital for the Sacramento County Department of Airports' massive infrastructure program earned him the nomination.

"What has kept me so interested in this market is the ability to actually learn something new every day, which has been extremely rewarding," said Morgan Fahy.

"I'd always had a public interest leaning, but to bundle finance with public policy and federal tax law into this gumbo of a practice that produces essential public projects is fundamentally attractive to me," said Joshua Bonney.

"Having a chance to talk directly about what we're doing and why we're doing it, it's reinforcing, in a way," said Claude Lockhart Jr.

"Part of the mission of the New York Fed is making the U.S. economy stronger and the financial system more stable for all segments of society," Timothy Little said, "and I really feel the municipal market is a critical component of that."

"Matt has become a seasoned and well-respected credit/risk management analyst," said Victor Chu, managing director at Assured Guaranty.

"I've been fortunate to have worked with some great people along the way, both on the law firm side and client side," said Stephanie Kim.

Taylor Klavan worked on financings for both LaGuardia and the Terminal 6 project at JFK Airport.

Sarah Jansen was introduced to the world of public finance while taking a public financial management class in graduate school at the University of Texas.

"The teams are pretty small, so I got exposure to things very early and that's helped me along the way," Stephanie Lom said.

Anthony Kinsey's talent comes in handy while helping issuers with the ongoing challenge of updating their official statements and investor presentations based on new disclosure requirements.

"I had no idea what public finance was going into it," Olyvia Jarmoszka said. "Dealing with the government was actually something that I enjoyed, considering my education."

"I traded in my labor and delivery scrubs for a career in finance when I had an incredible opportunity to intern at Merrill Lynch as a 16-year-old senior at Stuyvesant High School," William Kim said

"I had the opportunity to work with interesting issuers and complex transactions early on in my career, which gave me a solid foundation to build on," Kevin Plunkett said.