WHEREAS, Thomas E. Lanctot, serving as a Partner at William Blair & Company, a Chicago-based investment banking and asset management firm since 2000, has announced his intention to retire after eighteen years of dedicated service to the firm; and
WHEREAS, Thomas E. Lanctot leads the Infrastructure Banking Group for William Blair & Company; and
WHEREAS, the Chicago City Council has been informed of his decision by Alderman Edward M. Burke; and
WHEREAS, Thomas E. Lanctot is a 1976 graduate of Northwestern University who earned his Juris Doctor at the University of Chicago in 1979; and
WHEREAS, Thomas E. Lanctot practiced law for twenty-three years, providing expert counsel to his clients on transactional and governance matters; and
WHEREAS, as a Partner at William Blair & Company, Thomas E. Lanctot led project teams that were both catalysts and advisors on major cooperative public-private partnership (P3) ventures involving infrastructure both in Chicago and across the United States; and
WHEREAS, in a noteworthy career, Thomas E. Lanctot was instrumental in securing the $563 million-dollar long term concession fir the Grant Park and Millennium Park underground garages; and
WHEREAS, demonstrating great skill and superior business acumen, Thomas E. Lanctot played an active role in various other financial advisory assignments and transactions including the Chicago Transit Authority's Open Fare Collection System and the $1.15. billion long-term concession for the Chicago Metered Parking System; and
WHEREAS, Thomas E. Lanctot has been recognized and honored as one of the Top Ten Infrastructure investment bankers in the world by Investor Magazine and is one of only two specialists that is focused on representing public agencies in the United States; and
WHEREAS, Thomas E. Lanctot has served as an advisor to the Government Debt Management Committee of the Governmental Finance Officers Association (GFOA); and
WHEREAS, Thomas E. Lanctot is a frequent guest speaker and lecturer at conferences, seminars and membership organizations related to P3 topical matters; and
WHEREAS, demonstrating his unswerving commitment to charitable and philanthropic causes Thomas E. Lanctot has served numerous organizations and is a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Big Shoulders Fund generously supporting the work of inner-city Catholic Schools; and
WHEREAS, in addition, Thomas E. Lanctot is a director at the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center caring for patients suffering infectious diseases, and is Vice Chairman of and member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Chicago Botanic Garden, and the Executive Committee of the Illinois Institute of Technology; and
WHEREAS, in 2015 the Illinois Institute of Technology honored Thomas E. Lanctot by presenting him with the prestigious IIT Galvin Award recognizing his significant contributions leading the formation of IIT's Community Economic Development Taskforce, now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, that we, the Mayor and the members of the Chicago City Council assembled this seventeenth day of January, 2018, congratulate Thomas E. Lanctot on his retirement and wish him, his wife Kathy the very best as he begins the next phase of his life; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a suitable copy ofthis resolution be presented to Thomas
E. Lanctot.
Edward M. Burke Alderman, 14th Ward