Butler Snow Ranked Among Top Public Finance Firms in LSEG Data & Analytics First-Half of 2024 Bond Counsel Review

LSEG Data & Analytics, formerly known as 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 First-Half of 2024 Mid-Year Review. For its bond counsel work, the firm ranked regionally first in Mississippi with $267.0 million in volume and second in Louisiana with $202.5 million in volume. Butler Snow was also nationally ranked 5^th (previously 9^th) for Private Bond Counsel with $562 million in volume and 10^th in Green Disclosure with $22 million in volume.

LSEG Data & Analytics is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, serving over 40,000 customers in over 190 markets. LSEG Data & Analytics 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.

The firm’s public finance practice ranked across five states in the bond counsel ratings for the first half of 2024. The numbers are as follows:

Regional and State Bond Counsel Rankings

Southeast Region: 6^th with $1,696.7 million in volume

1^st in Mississippi – $267.0 million in volume

2^nd in Louisiana – $202.5 million in volume

3^rd in Colorado – $795.9 million in volume

4^th in Georgia – $366.3 million in volume

5^th in Alabama – $467.6 million 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, which is comprised of 42 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.