Piper Jaffray Continues to Build its California Municipal Finance Banking Team with Three Additional Bankers
July 21 2008 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Piper Jaffray & Co. has hired three new public finance bankers
to further strengthen its municipal finance banking platform and
help build the firm�s large issuer business in the California
region. Bernie Mikell, Russell Reyes and Rosalyn Chen are part of a
significant growth initiative at Piper Jaffray as they join nine
other recent public finance banking hires from UBS in California
and the existing team of Piper Jaffray bankers in this region. This
group will focus on growing the firm�s state and local government
financing business in California. Piper Jaffray now has 25 bankers
serving California and the surrounding region. �We have made a
significant investment in growing our platform in California,� said
Frank Fairman, head of public finance services at Piper Jaffray.
�Bernie, Russell and Rosalyn bring a depth of expertise and
relationships to our team. They complement our existing group and
the other recent hires that we have made and will further enhance
our leadership in California.� Mikell, a former banker at UBS,
joins Piper Jaffray as a senior vice president in the Sacramento,
Calif. office. With significant industry experience and strong
relationships with a variety of large issuers in California and
other western states, he will be responsible for developing new
business with large issuers and leading the firm�s efforts in
building the municipal finance banking business at the state level.
Mikell holds a bachelor�s degree from Hamilton College and a J.D.
degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. Reyes joins
Piper Jaffray from UBS where he was part of the western
infrastructure group and worked with large issuers in California
and other states. With more than 14 years of public finance
experience, he has participated in more than 100 senior managed
financings, collectively worth more than $16 billion. His financing
experience includes general obligation, COP/lease revenue,
water/wastewater, pension obligation bonds and other types of debt.
He will primarily concentrate on coverage of large issuers in the
western region. Reyes earned a bachelor�s degree from the
University of California - Los Angeles, and will be based in the
firm�s Los Angeles office. Chen also joins Piper Jaffray from UBS
where she was an associate director on the land secured financing
team. She has provided structuring and execution for 65 bond issues
totaling more than $1 billion in municipal infrastructure financing
and has nine years of experience in financial advisory, debt
structuring, special tax and real estate consulting and general
analytical support tax-exempt bond transactions. At Piper Jaffray,
Chen will work out of the Orange County, Calif. office, covering
municipalities and land-based finance. She earned a bachelor�s
degree from the University of California � San Diego and a Master
of Business Administration degree from the University of Southern
California. About Piper Jaffray Piper Jaffray Companies is a
leading, international middle-market investment bank and
institutional securities firm, serving the needs of middle-market
corporations, private equity groups, public entities, nonprofit
clients and institutional investors. Founded in 1895, Piper Jaffray
provides a comprehensive set of products and services, including
equity and debt capital markets products; public finance services;
mergers and acquisitions advisory services; high-yield and
structured products; institutional equity and fixed-income sales
and trading; and equity and high-yield research. With headquarters
in Minneapolis, Piper Jaffray has 25 offices across the United
States and international locations in London, Hong Kong, and
Shanghai. Piper Jaffray & Co. is the firm's principal operating
subsidiary. (NYSE: PJC) (http://www.piperjaffray.com) Since 1895.
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