The law firm of Sherman & Howard L.L.C. is pleased to announce that Parker Schenken has joined the firm’s Public Finance Department. He will be working out of the firm’s Denver office.

“We are thrilled to have Parker as a Member of Sherman & Howard,” said Jim Lane who leads the firm’s Public Finance team. “Parker brings more than two decades of experience in a wide variety of municipal finance transactions. He is a perfect fit for our practice group going forward and we are excited to have him as part of the team.”

Parker, a native Nebraskan, spent the last 22 years in public finance in Omaha. He has served as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel on various transactions, with recent emphasis in the health care, education and utility spaces. He is licensed in Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa. Parker is a 1994 graduate, with distinction, of the University of Nebraska College of Law, where he served as Executive Editor of the Nebraska Law Review. Parker also holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, and worked in the engineering field before attending law school.

Sherman & Howard is a nationally recognized, Am Law 200 law firm with 125 years of experience providing public finance services to state and local governments. The firm’s public finance attorneys work with clients to find the most effective financing vehicle for projects including schools, healthcare and cultural facilities, housing, infrastructure and more. In Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, our bond attorneys were the original drafters of many of the states’ authorizing bond statutes, evidencing our special expertise and our long commitment to providing innovative financing solutions. Sherman & Howard has been continuously listed in the “Municipal Bond Attorneys” section of The Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace (The Red Book) since that publication first started listing municipal bond attorneys in about 1939.

About Sherman & Howard. Sherman & Howard L.L.C. is one of the nation’s leading law firms, assisting its clients in most aspects of law affecting businesses and public institutions. Sherman & Howard’s more than 180 attorneys currently practice law from 10 offices located in Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, and New Mexico. The firm will celebrate its 125 year anniversary in 2017.

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