Kutak Rock Ranked No. 1 Bond Counsel Firm in Colorado for Fourth Consecutive Year
News | January 28, 2019For the fourth year in a row, Kutak Rock has been ranked as the number one Bond Counsel firm in Colorado based on both par value and the number of financings completed in 2018. The firm closed 70 transactions totaling $2.72 billion last year. In 2018, Kutak Rock served as Bond Counsel for 28% of the total dollar volume of bond issues in Colorado. The firm also ranked first in the State of Colorado based on the total number of issues closed for the 15th straight year. According to Thomson Reuters’, now known as Refinitiv, 2018 Year-End Colorado Municipal Market Analysis, the firm completed $1.1 billion more in total transaction value than the second-ranked firm in the State.
More than 110 attorneys comprise the firm’s Public Finance Group across 14 office locations. Kutak Rock’s Denver office is resident to 27 public finance attorneys.
Kutak Rock has served as Bond Counsel to issuers and borrowers of every type in Colorado, including the State, various State agencies, authorities and enterprises, cities, towns, counties, higher education institutions, recreation districts, school districts, charter schools, water and sanitation districts, fire protection districts, metropolitan districts, library districts, water conservancy districts, public highway authorities, regional transportation authorities, urban renewal authorities, downtown development authorities and nonprofit corporations of varied size, location and business activity.
Refinitiv—formerly Thomson Reuters—is a leading information source for the financial, legal, tax/accounting, scientific, health care and media markets, based the rankings and volume totals on all long-term municipal new issues underwritten and reported from Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 31, 2018.