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Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. On September 13, luminaries from across the world of municipal finance will gather in Chicago at the close of The Bond Buyer‘s Infrastructure event to celebrate the incoming class of Rising Stars and induct the second annual class into our Hall of

For Hill Feinberg, chairman emeritus of HilltopSecurities, there is satisfaction in seeing the airport, the school, the toll road, and other infrastructure his firm played a role in financing. “It’s very rewarding to look back and say I helped that educational process get done, or I helped this hospital get financed,” he said. “It’s very

The arc of Lois Scott’s diverse career path — from investment banker to White House Fellow to financial advisory firm co-founder to Chicago CFO to executive producer of women-directed film — has an underlying theme. Altruism, she said, has been the focus whether in the public or private sector. It stemmed from her parents’ influence.

Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. The Bond Buyer has announced its second annual class of inductees into its Hall of Fame of municipal finance, which recognizes and celebrates groundbreaking individuals who have left an indelible legacy on the muni community and the people and places it represents.

Californian Tim Schaefer, a legend in the municipal bond industry, is a posthumous inductee into The Bond Buyer’s Muni Hall of Fame. Schaefer, who died in January at age 75, had the distinction of working in the municipal bond industry from multiple angles: as a trader, a financial advisor, a banker, and finally as California’s

Margaret “Peg” Henry is among the most important contributors to contemporary municipal finance law, navigating seismic changes in the landscape as a lawyer in private practice, an educator, a regulator, and in-house broker-dealer counsel.  Henry’s more than 40 years as an influential attorney, for which she is being recognized as a member of The Bond

James Reynolds, Jr., Loop Capital Markets’ chief executive officer, chairman and co-founder, started in the municipal bond industry in 1981, when bonds were still traded “from a blue book — you actually printed out the prices of munis from the day before,” Reynolds recalled. Banks and insurance companies dominated the buyer base, with mutual funds

Gregory Carey has the municipal industry in his blood.  Carey is a third-generation muni market participant, following his grandfather, Gerald J. Carey, executive director, and ultimately chairman, of the New York City Housing Authority, and his father, Robert H. Carey, a municipal bond attorney with a career that spanned half a century. “My grandfather built

From the confines of bankruptcy courtrooms to the halls of Congress, James E. Spiotto earned the status of municipal bankruptcy dean over his more than four-decade career. Friends, colleagues, and industry professionals held Spiotto in high esteem as a consummate but humble voice in the municipal industry for his bankruptcy and restructuring expertise that influenced

After almost half a century in the municipal finance industry, with a heavy focus on affordable housing, public finance lawyer Howard Zucker is one of the most respected and admired attorneys in the business. Zucker, managing partner at Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP for 25 years, joined the firm as an associate in 1977 and became