Taft has been recognized in the Bond Buyer 2025 Annual Review, which ranks the nation’s leading public finance law firms based on the volume and value of municipal bond transactions they handle from the previous year at the state and national levels, published by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (fka Refinitiv). The ranking ranks a firm’s total dollar volume of bond issues completed in the previous year as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, and underwriter’s counsel for publicly offered bonds.

Taft ranked among the top public finance law firms in many states, particularly in the Far West category, as well as tenth nationally for special tax counsel. It earned the top spots in Nevada for both bond counsel and disclosure counsel, with 62.36% and 44.02% share of the market respectively.

Bond Counsel Rankings (by state)

• #3 in Colorado with $1.39 billion in bonds, or 10.44% of the market share.
• #6 in Indiana with $226.30 million in bonds, or 2.25% of the market share.
• #3 in Minnesota with $791.87 million in bonds, or 11.54% of the market share.
• #1 in Nevada with $1.99 billion in bonds, or 62.36% of the market share.
• #5 in New Mexico with $138.85 million in bonds or 5.10% of the market share.
• #12 in Ohio with $14.57 million in bonds, or 0.10% of the market share.

Disclosure Counsel Rankings (by state)

• #4 in Colorado with $726.92 million in bonds, or 5.44% of the market share.
• #1 in Nevada with $1.40 billion in bonds, or 44.02% of the market share.
• #3 in New Mexico with $165.09 million in bonds, or 6.07% of the market share.

Underwriter Counsel Rankings (by state)

• #6 in Colorado with $296.32 million in bonds, or 2.22% of the market share.
• #9 in Indiana with $77.00 million in bonds, or 0.77% of the market share.
• #7 in Utah with $132.25 million in bonds, or 2.09% of the market share.
• #3 in Wisconsin with $803.38 million in bonds or 4.57% of the market share.

National Rankings 

• #10 for special tax counsel with $446.10 million in bonds, or 1.34% of the market share.