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Ralph Holmes joined the San Francisco
banking staff of De La Rosa & Co. in 2006, bringing 10 years of
public-finance experience to the firm’s San Francisco office. Holmes has a
proven record of providing creative solutions to cities across California. His
innovative financing structures, prudent use of financial products, and
comprehensive services have served clients well in a broad variety of
land-secured, water and sewer, and lease financings.
Before coming to De La Rosa, Holmes worked for eight years as a Managing
Director at the Piper Jaffray underwriting firm, where he worked on more than
150 financings, including more than 60 for redevelopment agencies for a par
amount exceeding $1 billion. He also led the firm’s synthetic fixed-rate
effort, structuring several interest-rate swaps to maximize funding sources and
cash-flow savings for issuers. Earlier in his career he was a credit analyst in
National Westminster Bank’s public finance department.
Holmes received an MBA from the Garvin School of International Management
(Thunderbird) in 1996, and a Bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies from
UCLA in 1994.
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