Sherman & Howard ranked in the top two spots in three states in varying aspects of municipal publicly offered bond sales last year and No. 14 nationally as disclosure counsel and No. 20 nationally as underwriter’s counsel for municipal bonds offered last year, according to Refinitiv’s Bond Buyer rankings for 2022.

Sherman & Howard’s state rankings are as follows:

Underwriter’s Counsel

• No. 1 in Colorado with $3.3 billion in bonds, or 29% of the market

Bond Counsel

• 1 in Nevada with $1.59 billion in bonds, or 80.6% of the market
• 2 in New Mexico with $325 million in bonds, or 19.2% of the market
• 7 in Colorado with $466.7 million in bonds, or 4.1% of the market

Disclosure Counsel

• 2 in Nevada with $745 million in bonds, or 37.6% of the market
• 2 in Colorado with $1.2 billion in bonds, or 10.8% of the market
• 2 in New Mexico with $272.6 million in bonds, or 16% of the market

Sherman & Howard’s national ranking as disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel is as follows:

Disclosure Counsel

• 14 in the U.S. with $2.245 billion in bonds

Underwriter’s Counsel

• 20 in the U.S. with $3.625 billion in bonds

“At Sherman & Howard, we have a deep bench of attorneys with a wide variety of expertise and experience in public finance. With 15 attorneys in offices in four states, we have the significant and diverse experience to assist clients in all aspects of bond financing of their municipal and business development projects,” said Kendra Follett, Public Finance practice group leader at Sherman & Howard.

Rankings, which are published annually across the nation by Refinitiv, rank firms based on total dollar volume of bond issues completed in the previous year as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, and underwriter’s counsel for publicly offered bonds.

Sherman & Howard was ranked by Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News and World Report in the area of Public Finance as a Tier 2 firm nationally and a Tier 1 firm in Colorado. The firm also ranked Tier 2 in Albuquerque, N.M. for public finance.

From handling the original bonds financing the Moffatt Tunnel in the 1920s to the Boulder Turnpike in the early ‘50s to the future $600 million Fox Park infill project in west Denver, Sherman & Howard has been behind the bonding of billions of dollars in municipal and public financing projects in the Rocky Mountain West.

The firm has been listed in the “Municipal Bond Attorneys” section of The Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace (the “Red Book”) since that publication began listing municipal bond attorneys in 1939. The firm is regularly recognized among the leading public finance firms in the “Municipal Market Analysis” published by Refinitiv (formerly known as Thomson Reuters).

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About Sherman & Howard

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. is a full-service law firm with offices in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico. Our attorneys provide high-quality legal and business solutions to a broad range of clients, including private, public, and government entities. We have extensive experience in aerospace and government contracting, infrastructure and construction, financial services, natural resources, telecommunications, technology, manufacturing, consumer products and retail, and nonprofit entities. For more information, visit www.shermanhoward.com.