James A. Fagan, Managing Director
James A. Fagan has been with NW Financial since 1997, overseeing all of the Firm's securities activities, including sales, trading and municipal underwriting. Mr. Fagan serves as Managing Director and brings to bear over 35 years of Wall Street experience and expertise to structuring and executing taxable and tax-exempt transactions. Mr. Fagan is also actively involved as financial advisor to several of the Firm's major accounts.
As Financial Advisor, Mr. Fagan played instrumental roles in coordinating the pricing of the NJ Turnpike Authority's 2003 and 2005 issuance of over $3 billion of taxable/tax-exempt debt and the Authority's $1.5 billion derivatives transactions and the $2.8 billion 2006 issue for the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority. Most recently, Mr. Fagan has been serving as financial advisor to the $225 million Rahway Valley Sewerage Authority and $300 million Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.
Mr. Fagan has served as senior banker/underwriter on several of the firm’s major transactions. Recent projects include the $60 million Bergen County Improvement Authority (Bergen County Utility Authority) Series A current refunding and Series B delayed delivery bonds and the $51 million Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority, Series A convertible tax-exempt and Series B taxable bonds. He has been senior manager for the State of New Jersey, New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, New Jersey Educational Facility Financing Authority, New Jersey Economic Development Authority, Bergen County Improvement Authority, Hudson County Improvement Authority, Middlesex County Improvement Authority, Union County Improvement Authority, Morris County Improvement Authority and Mercer County Improvement Authority.
Prior to joining NW Financial, Mr. Fagan served as Executive Vice President for ICap, Inc., where he was responsible for underwriting municipal securities transactions, structuring turnkey projects, providing money management and financial advisory services to a host of clients. These projects included the State of Illinois' lease purchase obligation programs and the Massachusetts and Rhode Island federally mandated emissions control equipment programs. Prior to joining ICap, Inc., Mr. Fagan served as the President of PacifiCorp Capital Securities, where he managed the firm's proprietary portfolio of municipal and taxable debt and originations. Mr. Fagan also served as Manager of the municipal underwriting desk of Thomson McKinnon Securities and was previously affiliated with Moore, Schley & Cameron, Dean Witter Reynolds, and Merrill Lynch.
Mr. Fagan is a graduate of the Securities Institute at the Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania . In addition, Mr. Fagan has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Seton Hall University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Villanova University .
