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Daniel Deaton is a finance and securities attorney who has represented corporate and governmental clients in a wide variety of transactions. Mr. Deaton has represented corporate clients in several different types of transactions such as public and private securities offerings; mergers, acquisitions, international joint ventures, and joint ventures relating to the development of technology; corporate and partnership governance issues; and residential mortgage securitizations. Mr. Deaton has represented governmental clients such as cities, counties, and redevelopment agencies as disclosure counsel and bond counsel in lease revenue, enterprise fund, pension obligation bond, tax revenue anticipation, Teeter, and tax increment financings. In addition, he has acted as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in 501(c)(3) and private activity bond financings, including financings supporting electric power grid, waste management, and water utility operations. Mr. Deaton was admitted to practice in California in 2004 and in Texas in 1998. He is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, J.D. and University of California at Irvine, B.A.

Mr. Greer, a partner in Orrick's Seattle office, is a member of the Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement Group. Mr. Greer's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on securities, corporate governance, and professional liability for accounting firms, class actions and energy issues.Mr. Greer's current matters include the following.Representation of a former financial officer in the Washington Mutual Securities Litigation class action.Representation of a Big Four accounting firm in a wage-and-hour class action challenging the exempt status of unlicensed accountants.Representation of an investment bank in an action brought by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle seeking to rescind the purchase of more than US$500 million in RMBS certificates.Mr. Greer has represented issuers, officers, directors, accountants and underwriters in class action securities litigation and in SEC investigations and enforcement proceedings. Mr. Greer’s practice also includes representation of companies, Special Litigation Committees and individuals in corporate governance disputes. He has conducted a number of internal investigations on behalf of boards of directors of both public and private companies. His experience in the energy arena includes the representation of the Bonneville Power Administration in an arbitration involving more than a billion dollars in claimed damages.  His employment law experience includes a wage-and-hour matter for a Big Four accounting firm, and representation of an aluminum company in defeating unemployment claims of union members who walked off the job as part of a collective bargaining dispute.He has a J.D. from Stanford Law School and B.A., with highest distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Virginia.

Mr. Howard is Director of Power System Planning and Development and the Chief Compliance Officer in the Power System Executive Office at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). He is currently leading several Power System strategic initiatives transitioning the utilities resource mix. He manages the Transmission Planning, Resource Development and Procurement, Natural Gas Procurement, and Wholesale Marketing. He has held many previous engineering and management positions at LADWP, such as Director of Corporate Communications and as Director of Commercial Services. He is a 24-year employee at LADWP. He has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Sacramento and a Master in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.

Rebecca J. Winthrop is a Shareholder in the Los Angeles Office, and is a member of the firm’s Public Finance and Bankruptcy & Restructuring Groups. Her practice focuses on representing financial institutions, special servicers and other creditors in commercial lending transactions, workouts and bankruptcies. She has handled disclosure and due diligence matters for public bond offerings for municipalities, has regularly represented indenture trustees on bondholder issues, loan workouts and bankruptcies involving high-yield securities, has hands-on experience representing municipalities in matters involving Chapter 9, and advises on Assembly Bill 506. Ms. Winthrop regularly speaks on bankruptcy-related topics involving municipal bond defaults, distressed real estate, loan restructuring and employment issues, including before the Commercial Finance Association, the Turnaround Managers Association and the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

David is a managing director at KNN Public Finance and a registered municipal advisor. Over the past 16 years, he has served as financial advisor to a wide range of cities, counties, special districts, State agencies and educational districts throughout the State.Prior to joining KNN in 1998, David was a Vice President and Senior Credit Officer with Moody's Investors Service in San Francisco, and was a member of Moody's national rating committee. His specialties included lease financing, water revenue finance, and redevelopment.David began his career with the City of Los Angeles, where for twelve years he was responsible for financial planning, debt issuance, and bond administration for general government departments. Among his duties was creating the City’s leasing corporation (MICLA), resurrecting a general obligation bond program after a long hiatus following the passage of Proposition 13, and issuing judgment bonds to finance major adverse court rulings.�David is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in Modern Society and Social Thought, and the author of a book on Los Angeles, L.A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay, published by UC Press.�

John Stoecker serves as a Financial Advisor to the California Municipal Finance Authority, assisting borrowers with qualified projects to facilitate taxable and tax-exempt bond financings throughout the state of California. His previous experience includes providing tax-exempt Financial Advisory services to borrowers in over 30 states. Mr. Stoecker also served as Vice President and Chairman of the Board of United Community Development Associates, a certified Community Development Entity, which focused on community and economic development activities nationwide. Mr. Stoecker currently serves his country as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve having spent 16 years as a C-130 Pilot. He was also a pilot flying international routes for a major airline and began his career working for the Chairman of the Board at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Mr. Stoecker received his BS from Southeastern Oklahoma State University, with honors and his MBA from the University of Southern California.

Kevin Kone has over 20 years of experience in aviation and public finance. He currently serves as the Assistant Deputy Airport Director of Capital Finance at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). As the Director of Capital Finance, Kevin is responsible for managing SFO’s debt portfolio of $4.3 billion consisting of General Airport Revenue Bonds, Variable Rate Demand Bonds, Tender Bonds, $200 million Commercial Paper program and $585 million in interest rate swaps. Additionally, he is responsible for all capital development programs such as managing Federal grants the Passenger Facility Charge Program. SFO’s debt portfolio is considered one of the more sophisticated debt portfolios in the country for a large hub airport. In June 2011, Kevin was able to obtain a rating upgrade from A to A+ from Standard and Poor’s, the only large hub airport to receive an upgrade during a time where Airports and Airlines continue to be challenged in this turbulent economic environment.

Mr. Nagahama is an industry leader in providing investment banking services to Airports across the U.S. Over his career, Mr. Nagahama has served as investment banker on over $20 billion of airport financings as senior manager, co-manager or financial advisor. Mr. Nagahama leads Jefferies’ engagements with the San Francisco Airport Commission and the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.In October 2010, Mr. Nagahama was the lead banker on the firm’s senior managed $304 million financing for the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, DFW’s first new money transaction since 2004. In August 2010, Mr. Nagahama worked with the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority to execute the termination of $225 million of interest rate swaps and refinancing of the underlying variable rate bonds to fixed rate, thus eliminating all associated risks and simplifying RDU's capital structure and risk profile. In July 2010 and November 2010, Mr. Nagahama advised the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority on two open market purchase programs under ARRA, totaling approximately $200 million. Mr. Nagahama’s airport clients have ranged in size from small to medium to large hubs, from existing to expanding to new airports, and from fortress hubs to predominantly O&D airports. Over the last 18 years, for his airport clients, Mr. Nagahama has created new revenue credits, worked to update old revenue bond indentures, developed financial transactions to leverage PFCs, AIPs, CFCs and implemented interest rate swaps, commercial paper programs and auction rate programs. Mr. Nagahama is serving/has served as the firm’s day-to-day banker for engagements with the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, San Diego International Airport, Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), Indianapolis Airport Authority, Louisville Regional Airport Authority, Salt Lake City Department of Airports, Tucson Airport Authority, Denver International Airport, Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority and Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority, among others. Mr. Nagahama has designed and executed new general airport revenue credits for MAC and RDU; airport revenue bond indenture amendments for MWAA, IAA and Fort Lauderdale; multi-pronged PFC programs for MAC and Fort Lauderdale; hedging programs for RDU, IAA and MWAA; targeted capital structure strategy for IAA. Mr. Nagahama has developed and implemented large scale capital programs including: the 2010 Plan at MSP; the New Midfield Terminal Program at IAA; the d2 Development at Dulles International Airport; and the Terminal C Rehabilitation and Replacement Terminal program at RDU. Mr. Nagahama has implemented interest rate swaps of over $5 billion for airport clients. Mr. Nagahama has spoken at a number of industry-sponsored conferences—ACI, AAAE, Bond Buyer—on airport financing. Mr. Nagahama holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University Business School and an A.B. in Engineering Science from Harvard College and is currently on the Board of Asian Americans in Public Finance.

Peter J. Hill is a managing director and head of the U.S. Public Finance Investment Banking segment of Wells Fargo Government & Institutional Banking (GIB). Based in New York, he oversees a team of 135 professionals in 18 offices nationwide, serving clients in many specialty industries.Wells Fargo GIB provides a wide range of services to meet the unique needs of government, education, healthcare and nonprofit organizations. Bringing together specialized relationship managers, investment banking professionals, and tax-exempt sales and distribution specialists into one team, Wells Fargo GIB integrates the full range of Wells Fargo resources to create value for more than 5,000 clients. As part of GIB, Public Finance Investment Banking provides bond and note underwriting services, municipal derivatives, structured products and bond trading, underwriting, and sales to government and institutional clients across the United States.With 34 years of experience in public finance, Peter joined Wells Fargo in 2009. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, he served as managing director and head of the Public Finance Investment Banking group at Banc of America Securities. Before that, he was the executive vice president of ACA Capital, where he ran one of its three primary businesses. He also spent 14 years as managing director and was head of the U.S. Public Finance department for J.P. Morgan. Before that, Peter worked as an investment banker for Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. (now Citi). He began his career in 1982 as an analyst in the Debt Rating Division of Standard & Poor’s Corp., specializing in education, transportation and special tax-backed credits.Peter earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, and attended the Stern School of Business at New York University. He also maintains his FINRA Series 7,24,53,63 and 79 securities licenses.Peter is a former vice chairman of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) and a current member of the Municipal Executive Committee of the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). Peter is a board member of CaringKind for Alzheimer’s Caregiving and is a board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation – New York Chapter.