Jade Turner-Bond is a partner in the Los Angeles office dedicated to projects that provide a positive social impact (whether sponsored by public entities, nonprofits or for-profit enterprises). Her practice focuses on social and transportation infrastructure projects, and she serves as counsel to issuers, underwriters and sponsors on a broad spectrum of public finance transactions.

Jade is recognized nationally and globally by Chambers USA. Clients describe her as a “trusted advisor” and as being “smart, easy to work with and commercially – minded.”

She has worked on a broad range of financing structures, including fixed and variable rate, tax-exempt and taxable, letter of credit and liquidity supported bonds, tenders, exchanges, senior/subordinate, project finance, direct purchases, and 144A and Section 4(a)(2) offerings.

Some of Jade’s notable clients include the City of Los Angeles, the State of California, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Port of Los Angeles, and The Broad, as well as some of the most active underwriters in the market.

She has recently been recognized by Bloomberg Law’s They’ve Got Next: 40 Under 40, as well as a Rising Star by The Bond Buyer and as one of the Women of Influence by The Los Angeles Business Journal. She is also actively involved in community development, serving on the board of directors of GRID110, a nonprofit focused on supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in Los Angeles.

Previously, Jade served as legal counsel to the California State Treasurer’s office.

Andy Nakahata is the Executive Director at IBank.

Prior to being appointed by Governor Newsom in 2025 as Chief Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank), Andy Nakahata spent more than 30 years working with state and local governments, public and private universities, public utilities and other entities developing financing solutions to fund infrastructure projects through the tax-exempt and taxable debt markets.

Nakahata is a native of San Francisco and a long-time Bay Area resident. Prior to joining the IBank, he worked at TD Securities as Director and Western Region Head, UBS Financial Services as Managing Director and Regional Head of Public Finance, West Region, and National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation as Managing Director and Head of West Region New Business building each respective firm’s presence and business in the western region. Nakahata also served as a public finance investment banker with Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs.

Nakahata has spent his career finding creative solutions to fund public infrastructure projects at the lowest cost of funds. He plans to leverage his experience as a banker and financial services executive to further strengthen the IBank’s mission to provide financial assistance to support infrastructure and economic development.

A testament to his connection with the California public finance industry, Nakahata has served five times as Co-Chair of the California Bond Buyer Conference, the largest public finance conference in the country.

Nakahata is an active community member, currently serving as Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of San Francisco University High School and is a current and founding member of the Board of Directors of Asian Americans in Public Finance. He previously served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Marin Country Day School, Secretary of the Board of Directors of Kokoro Assisted Living, Treasurer of the Board of Directors of Enterprise for Youth and member of the Board of Directors of the Asian Pacific Youth Leadership Project.