2024 Deal of the Year

Photos from The Bond Buyer's 2024 Deal of the Year awards gala.

As the largest private-activity bond issuance and first investment-grade debt for American high-speed rail, this transaction, which also won Deal of the Year in the Innovative Financing category, opens new avenues for large-scale infrastructure projects in a traditionally underserved financing sector.

Along with Altman and Wiggins, 12 other honorees from the public and private sectors were chosen by the Northeast Women in Public Finance as Trailblazing Women in Public Finance. 

The county achieved its many goals through long-running discipline, planning, and intelligent risk taking.

The use of extendable commercial paper, a first by an airport, provided DFW interim financing for its capital program without the need for bank liquidity.

"It became apparent that building this new critical care, advanced care bed tower was a strategic imperative," said John Morgan, interim CFO at WMCHealth.

The prepaid electricity bond deal issued by the California Community Choice Financing Authority for the Clean Power Allliance was record-setting in size.

Skeptical lawmakers, a new administration in Baton Rouge, and construction change orders all meant repeated delays in commercial close of the P3.

The University of Chicago embarked on the Illinois Finance Authority's largest financing ever to transform its capital structure and fund major projects.