Baird’s Commitment to Municipals

When you’re independent and employee-owned, you can do things differently. At Baird, that starts with a leadership team that understands and supports the unique needs of our municipal clients, while positioning it for future growth.

Baird has a seasoned fixed income capital markets platform delivering precise trade execution, timely analysis and unique ideas to our institutional clients. Our industry-recognized municipal team is comprised of dedicated municipal salespersons, traders, strategists and analytical specialists. In addition to our dedicated municipal salespersons, our team of fixed income institutional generalist salespersons closely collaborate to broaden our distribution capabilities.

Our municipal clients continue to be a top priority for the business. The distribution capabilities that we offer our clients is a testament to the talent, depth and expertise of our platform.

Stephanie Warren, Chief Operating Officer, Fixed Income Capital Markets

We are devoted to meeting the needs of public, private and non-profit municipal issuers, which is exemplified by our complementary public finance platform, offering advisory, underwriting, placement agent and consulting services across the country. Notably, Baird is recognized as the No. 1 underwriter nationally by number of issues collectively since 2009.¹ Over the past 10 years, Baird has served municipal issuers in 49 states, as well as Washington, D.C., which further demonstrates the depth of our expertise across various markets and sectors.¹

I am proud of the partnership that our public finance team has with our municipal team as it enables us to provide a differentiated level of service to our clients.

Brian Brewer, Managing Director, Director of Public Finance

Our municipal analysts work diligently to offer timely commentary and strategies tailored to meet the unique needs of each audience, including retail investors, institutional investors and portfolio analysts. Additionally, their insights are used internally by our fixed income institutional salesforce to aid in potential investor awareness of municipal credits and sector updates to generate new ideas and opportunities to enhance their portfolio. Our public finance banking teams also benefit from the insights and commentary of our municipal analysts, providing a real-time pulse on the municipal market.

We work collectively to effectively price and place bonds for municipal issuers with institutional investors, demonstrating our:

• Broad market knowledge
• Expertise in structuring bonds of municipal entities in various sectors and regions
• Depth and sophistication of resources
• Strong capital base (balance sheet) to support our municipal clients
• Diverse and institutional distribution capabilities