Calaveras County: DLR has closed on two land-secured refundings for Saddle Creek, a golf community in the Sierra Nevadas. The Sales and Trading Desk found buyers who understood the developer’s long-term strategy.  •  Palmdale: DLR was sole Senior Manager on federally taxable Certificates of Participation so the city could acquire 600 acres for a 550-megawatt power plant to attract and retain businesses.  •  Chowchilla: DLR senior-managed a special bond for critical infrastructure improvement until development impact fees can be raised to support $93 million in residential, commercial and industrial projects.  •  Pittsburg: DLR was Senior Manager on a tax-allocation bond that raised almost $100 million for housing and other projects, and saved the city’s Redevelopment Agency another $3.5 million by refinancing earlier bonds.  •  Chula Vista: DLR senior-managed a tax-allocation bond after Chula Vista demonstrated that the future assessed value of the city’s Bayfront-Town Centre offsets a highly concentrated tax base.  •  Los Angeles: As book-running Senior Manager, DLR structured a $34.5-million pooled financing for the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency without a yield spread to adhere to the CRA policy to complete separation between project areas.  •  DLR senior-managed refunding of all outstanding debt at Ontario Airport, increasing the L.A. Department of Airports’ flexibility to define net revenues and its debt-service reserve fund – and reaffirm its “A” rating.  •  Long Beach: The city recently issued more than $190 million in redevelopment project financing, including $115 million of taxable bonds, in a Marks-Roos pooled issue to fund projects in five areas.  •  From naval base to housing space: Few could envision a new community when the Alameda Point Naval Air Station was decommissioned a decade ago. Today, a highly successful development with 300 homes occupies part of the old base.  •  Riverside County: DLR senior-managed a $25-million Mello-Roos financing to improve street, water, sewer, and other public facilities at Lake Hills Crest, a development with 512 single-family detached units.
 

Raul Amezcua
Principal
Los Angeles Office
Tel: (310) 207-1975
ramezcua@ejdelarosa.com
Raul Amezcua joined De La Rosa & Co. in 2003, after 12 years at Wall Street based bond firms. Amezcua is based in the Los Angeles office, where he heads the firm’s financial products effort. During 16 years in California public finance, he has completed more than 70 senior managed debt financings with an aggregate par value exceeding $14 billion, including recent issues for Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego counties, the Metropolitan Water District, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and the cities of Riverside and Alhambra.

Amezcua has served for five years on the Board of Directors of the PUENTE Learning Center, and currently co-chairs one of the group’s two major annual fundraising events. He is a past board member of the California Public Securities Association.

Amezcua received an MBA in 1991 from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA, and a Bachelor’s degree in finance in 1987 from the University of Southern California.

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