Robert Feigenson

Mr. Feigenson has spent more than 14 years in the public finance industry focusing exclusively on education and not-for-profit municipal market financings nationwide. He worked on the investment banking teams for education and 501(c)(3) borrowers at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Jefferies & Co prior to joining FirstSouthwest Co. Since 2000, Mr. Feigenson has served on financing deal teams for a broad range of higher education, not-for-profit and cultural institutions and has worked on more than 140 bond and bank financing transactions totaling over $7.1 billion in volume nationwide, including transactions for private colleges and universities such as Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Muhlenberg College, Elon University, Johnson & Wales University, American University, Marymount University and Virginia Wesleyan College, as well as for public colleges and universities such as the University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Virginia Tech Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Clemson University and The Ohio State University. He has also worked with prominent not-for-profit institutions such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Academy of Sciences, Public Broadcasting Service, the Guggenheim Museum, National Wildlife Federation, National Geographic Society, the American Red Cross and the National Jewish Federation Bond Program.He has developed a particular expertise in highly structured financings utilizing a variety of security features and asset/liability strategies. And he has focused specifically on the creation of long-term capital plan financing tools to stress-test operating forecasts, as well as to evaluate debt capacity and credit strength within the capital planning process. Mr. Feigenson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Georgetown University and FINRA Series 7, 53 and 63 licenses.