DENVER (February 2, 2024) – Sherman & Howard is proud to announce its top honors in the LSEG (fka Refinitiv) Bond Buyer rankings for 2023. The firm was ranked first in Nevada, second in Colorado and New Mexico in varying aspects of municipal publicly offered bond sales, and 15^th nationally as disclosure counsel.

“Sherman & Howard has a deep bench of public finance attorneys with a wide variety of experience,” said Sherman & Howard Public Finance Practice Group Leader Kendra Follett. “Our team takes a proactive approach, anticipating legal issues and opportunities, and assisting clients in all aspects of bond financing for their municipal and business development projects.”

Regarded among the best in the field of public finance, Sherman & Howard has a long history of providing innovative financing solutions. The firm has been behind the bonding of billions of dollars in municipal and public financing projects in the Rocky Mountain West, including the handling of the original bonds that financed the Moffatt Tunnel in the 1920s and the Boulder Turnpike in the early 1950s.

The firm has been listed in the “Municipal Bond Attorneys” section of The Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace since the 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 LSEG.

Sherman & Howard was ranked in the 2024 Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” list as a Tier 2 firm nationally, a Tier 1 firm in Colorado, and a Tier 2 firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico for public finance.

Sherman & Howard’s state rankings are as follows.

Underwriter’s Counsel

• 2 in Colorado with $919.37 million in bonds, or 16.15% of the market

Bond Counsel

• 1 in Nevada with $1.95 billion in bonds, or 75.31% of the market
• 3 in Colorado with $615.88 million in bonds, or 10.82% of the market
• 5 in New Mexico with $92.54 million in bonds, or 6.71% of the market

Disclosure Counsel

• 1 in Nevada with $1.16 billion in bonds, or 44.72% of the market
• 2 in New Mexico with $132.18 million in bonds, or 9.59% of the market
• 3 in Colorado with $398.27 million in bonds, or 6.99% of the market

Sherman & Howard’s national ranking as disclosure counsel is as follows.

Disclosure Counsel

• 15 in the U.S. with $1.69 billion in bonds

LSEG bases the Bond Buyer rankings on 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.

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 shermanhoward.com.