Firms Pre-Qualified to Provide Financing Services for the Commonwealth Bond Sales
The following firms have been approved and qualified by the State Treasurer's Office to provide professional services to the State Treasurer’s Office regarding Commonwealth of Massachusetts bond sales or its borrowing programs. Each firm was selected via a competitive Request for Qualifications (RFQ).
Underwriting firms are prequalified on a rolling basis. Please note the following RFQ is an on-going prequalification and does not expire: Underwriter RFQ. Underwriting firms seeking prequalification should respond to the attached RFQ, directing any questions to us at massbondholder@tre.state.ma.us.
When procuring for all other professional services listed below, the State Treasurer’s Office will issue a new RFQ. Please note Treasury last procured for Legal Counsel services in March 2024 with the current prequalified list of firms set to expire on April 1, 2027, with an optional one-year extension. Also, Treasury last procured for Financial Advisory services in November 2022 with the current prequalified list of firms set to expire on December 31, 2025, with an optional one-year extension. For information regarding future RFQs, please subscribe to COMMBUYS, the Commonwealth’s online procurement website, at www.COMMBUYS.com.
- Underwriters
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- Academy Securities (SDVOB)
- American Veterans Group (SDVOB)
- AmeriVet Securities (SDVOB)
- Bancroft Capital (SDVOB)
- BofA Securities
- BNY Mellon Capital Markets
- Barclays
- Blaylock Van (MWBE)
- Cabrera Capital Markets (MWBE)
- Crews and Associates, Inc.
- D.A. Davidson
- Drexel Hamilton (SDVOB)
- Estrada Hinojosa & Co. (MWBE)
- Fidelity Capital Markets
- FHN Financial
- Goldman Sachs & Co.
- Hilltop Securities
- Huntington Capital Markets
- Janney Montgomery Scott
- JP Morgan
- Jefferies & Co.
- Loop Capital Markets (MWBE)
- Mesirow Financial
- Mischler Financial Group (SDVOB)
- Morgan Stanley
- Oppenheimer & Co.
- Piper Sandler
- Ramirez & Co. (MWBE)
- Raymond James
- RBC Capital Markets
- Rice Financial Products Co. (MWBE)
- Robert W. Baird & Co.
- Roosevelt & Cross
- R. Seelaus (MWBE)
- Siebert Williams Shank (MWBE)
- State Street Bank & Trust Co.
- Stern Brothers & Co. (MWBE)
- Stifel Nicolaus
- US Bancorp
- Wells Fargo Securities
- Bond Counsel
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- Hinckley, Allen & Snyder
- Locke Lord
- McCarter & English
- Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
- Robinson & Cole
- Disclosure Counsel
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- Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
- Direct Purchase/Liquidity Counsel
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- Locke Lord
- Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
- Underwriters’ Counsel
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The following firms have been pre-qualified by the State Treasurer's Office to provide counsel services to a syndicate of firms underwriting a Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bond Sale:
- Bowditch & Dewey
- Greenberg Traurig
- Hinckley, Allen & Snyder
- Locke Lord
- McCarter & English
- Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
- MWH Law Group
- Robinson & Cole
- Financial Advisors
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- Acacia Financial Group, Inc.
- Frasca & Associates, LLC
- Omnicap Group LLC
- PFM Financial Advisors LLC
- Swap Advisors
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- Primary: Swap Financial Group
- Backup: Mohanty Gargiulo, LLC