Refinitiv, a world-leading provider of financial news content, insights and analytics, has recognized Butler Snow LLP among the nation’s top firms for public finance in its recent 2023 Year-End Annual Review. This recognition highlights Butler Snow’s continued leadership and expertise in the legal field. For its bond counsel work, the firm ranked regionally first in Mississippi with $538.7 billion in volume and first in Alabama with $1,613.4 billion in volume.
The firm’s public finance practice ranked across three states in the bond counsel ratings for the 2023 Year-End Review, and the numbers are as follows:
Regional and State Bond Counsel Rankings
Southeast Region: 2nd with $4,469.9 billion in volume
1st in Mississippi – $538.7 (last year – $420.6) billion in volume
1st in Alabama – $1,613.4 (last year – $390.9 billion in volume
2nd in Louisiana – $1,865.7 (last year – $303.5) billion in volume
Butler Snow’s Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group utilizes experienced attorneys from New York to Colorado to form one of the most creative and successful public finance practices in the country. The practice offers a comprehensive and diverse public finance range of services spanning from all forms of state and municipal bonds and obligations to the full complement of techniques available to finance or refinance a wide array of projects. The group, comprised of more than 43 attorneys, works collaboratively to find innovative financing solutions to support governmental, healthcare, industrial/economic development, public-private partnerships, exempt facilities, utilities, public and private educational institutions, housing and other developments and nonprofit institutions. Butler Snow’s attorneys play several roles in public finance as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter counsel and more, making bond financing an integral practice to the firm’s clients.
Refinitiv is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, serving over 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries. Published by The Bond Buyer, Refinitiv based its rankings and volume totals on a variety of self-reported statistics. The rankings signify how active firms are in the public finance space and provide a listing of the busiest public finance firms in the country from January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023.