Brad Guilmino serves as HNTB’s chief financial consultant and provides specialized expertise in the development of funding and financing plans. His capital market knowledge and debt strategy insights can assist clients in implementing and financing infrastructure projects. Guilmino previously worked in transportation investment banking for Citigroup. He has experience with a wide range of public transportation agencies and has specific expertise with project finance, tolling, revenue and sales tax bonding, federal programs and public-private partnerships (PPPs).

Guilmino’s experience in investment banking, managing billions of dollars of debt for tolling entities, departments of transportation and transit clients, provides him with a unique understanding of innovative structuring options and the perspectives of rating agencies and investors. This knowledge is essential in assessing debt capacity and optimizing a financing plan. His transportation transaction experience includes:

• Toll revenue and highway revenue bonds
• Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicles (GARVEEs)
• Federal grant applications
• Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) applications

Guilmino has considerable understanding of the risk factors and benefits of PPPs and has advised several clients on project delivery options and advised private consortiums on financing plans for concession bids. His experience with PPP transactions affords him the unique skill set to understand and evaluate both public and private financing strategies. Additionally, he has considerable experience in developing financial plans, performing feasibility studies, and financial reporting of program management contracts for various public and private infrastructure clients.

Guilmino’s experience with PPP financial plans can assist in the preliminary evaluation of project feasibility and optimization of tax-exempt Private Activity Bonds and TIFIA loans for final finance plans. His expertise includes these key areas:

• Knowledge of state and USDOT funding programs and initiatives
• Understanding of the PPP procurement process and valuation drivers
• Knowledge of PPP delivery options (availability payment and concession structures)
• Knowledge of private sources and characteristics of debt and equity
• Expertise in the structuring, rating agency and pricing process for tax-exempt private activity bonds
• Understanding of TIFIA program parameters and structural flexibility

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