2025 Finance & Administration Seminar Sponsors
We could not put on this event without the help of our sponsors. We appreciate their willingness to participate year after year. If you see them at the meeting, please tell them thank you!
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, we still have options available for the upcoming Finance & Administration Seminar. Your logo will be posted on this page along with various other publications and verbal recognition throughout the event.
Please email Mandy Lill or call 360.943.0760 for more information!
Reception Bar Sponsors
KeyBank and KeyBanc Capital Markets’ Public Port team provides a full array of taxable and tax-exempt financing solutions for its clients. Key’s full-service platform is unique in the Northwest, combining traditional bank products (such as revolving lines of credit, direct loans, lease lines of credit) with investment banking services (30+ years of experience) for publicly offered municipal bonds sold in the capital markets.
General Reception Sponsors
PFM serves as a municipal financial advisor to ports and other local governments throughout the Pacific Northwest. Our advisory services include capital planning, debt capacity analysis, project-specific financial analysis, and debt issuance and management.
Enduris is a member-owned, local government risk-sharing pool that has provided affordable property and liability coverage since 1987. We provide coverage and loss control solutions to over 500 Washington State special purpose districts, including many of Washington’s port districts.
Piper Sandler’s Public Finance team provides underwriting and financial advisory services to state and local governments, including ports, cities, counties and special districts. Supported by a broad national platform, our Northwest team leverages localized knowledge to facilitate the issuance of taxable and tax-exempt debt across a range of sectors. In addition, through approximately 400 traditional and non-traditional lending relationships, Piper Sandler partners with clients to secure a range of private placement loan opportunities. Our firm is proud to be ranked as both a top ten underwriting firm and top ten financial advisor on a national level.
Breakfast & Lunch Sponsor
Serving Northwest public and private clients, including public ports. U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers list Pacifica as a Tier 1 law firm in the Seattle region for public finance law, appellate law, education law, municipal law, and real estate law. Many of our attorneys are recognized as “Best Lawyers in America” and as “Super Lawyers.” We also have deeply held professional and personal commitments to civic responsibility, community volunteerism and industry participation, reflected in our leadership and/or pro bono service to numerous organizations, associations, boards and committees.
Largest public entity broker servicing port insurance programs.
Public finance, litigation, municipal law, environmental law, labor and employment law, real estate law.
Meeting Refreshment Sponsors
Certified public accounting firm specializing in Washington ports since 1987. Financial and accounting services include assistance with State Auditor’s Annual Reports, BARS coding, cash conversions, cash flow analysis and grant compliance. Member of WPPA, Washington Finance Officers Association and Governmental Finance Officers Association.
Spouse Participation Sponsor
The AWC is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Olympia that represents Washington cities before the legislature, executive branch, and regulatory agencies. Besides advocacy, AWC provides access to relevant training, high-quality events, valuable data, and member pooling programs such as the Employee Benefits Trust, Workers’ Comp Retro, and the Drug & Alcohol Consortium. All Port Districts are eligible to join AWC and its Member Pooling Programs.
