Guy Nagahama

Mr. Nagahama has served as Lead Banker on over $80 billion airport bond transactions over 30+ year career. Mr. Nagahama joined Ramirez & Co., Inc. in 2018 to expand the Firm’s airport franchise nationally. Mr. Nagahama has designed and executed comprehensive financing programs to support multi-year airport capital investment programs, has launched new airport and re-launched airport credits. Mr. Nagahama also served as the municipal advisor to the sponsors of the New Terminal One P3 project at JFK International Airport on their first two issuances, totaling $4.0 billion, establishing important benchmarks for their future issuance.

For his airport clients, in addition to designing and executing financing programs, Mr. Nagahama has developed rating agency strategies to achieve ratings upgrades and defend ratings in the face of large capital investments; and has executed unique marketing strategies to differentiate his airport clients’ offerings and to improve the breadth and depth of investor penetration in all segments of buyers. Mr. Nagahama has also worked to create several new airport credits and indentures, update older revenue bond indentures, and developed financial transactions to leverage PFCs, AIPs, CFCs and implemented interest rate swaps, commercial paper programs, has negotiated over $10 billion of bank facilities, including direct purchases and has drafted debt, derivatives, refunding, investment and targeted capital policies.

Mr. Nagahama graduated from Harvard University with a B.S. in Engineering Science and Columbia Business School with an MBA in Finance and Economics