Joseph Fichera Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

Manages seasoned finance professionals' team. Provides confidential, independent analysis and advice to chief executive officers, federal and state regulators, elected officials, chief financial officers, and others. Strategic advice on energy finance, equity, debt restructurings, securitizations, and other financial market access issues.• Advised nine US state regulatory utility commissions, consumer advocates and utilities on the sale of $11 billion of specialized energy bonds. Initiated and developed the market for international investors (primarily European and Asian investors) in these securities. Proceeds were used to finance energy deregulation in Texas and New Jersey, hurricane damage recovery costs in Florida and North Carolina and the retirement of nuclear facilities in Florida, and environmental compliance in West Virginia and Wisconsin.• Advised the Governor of California directly in making decisions concerning the financing of the 2001 California energy crisis. Represented the Governor with the financial community to reestablish confidence in the governor’s ability to address the financial impact of the crisis on the state, the investor-owned utilities and their customers.• Advised US Securities & Exchange Commission in their two–year investigation of the auction rate securities market which resulted in a comprehensive settlement with 16 major investment banking firms. Subsequently advised an agency of the state of New York, the Attorney General of the State of Hawaii, and other public and private institutional investors in resolving litigation arising from the 2007–2008 credit crisis involving auction rate securities.• Initiated a solution to improve corporate governance by ensuring the independence of directors through a new entity whose initial advisory board included Alan Blinder, Marina Von Neuman Whitman and Leon Panetta.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Advise the Chief Executive Officer and others at the direction of the CEO on policy and business development in corporate and public finance.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

The National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI) selected Joseph S. Fichera, chief executive officer of Saber Partners, LLC, as one of six individuals nation-wide for its “National Fellows” program. Mr Fichera continued as CEO of Saber Partners, LLC, however, he and the other selected Fellows agreed to become important resources for regulators of investor-owned electric, gas and water utilities around the country. The NRRI “National Fellows Program” is a group of financial, legal, regulatory and energy experts to assist U.S. public utility regulatory commissioners nation-wide in their discussion and evaluation of critical regulatory issues. The NRRI Board selected each Fellow based on their significant and material contributions to their respective fields and the critical issues facing regulators today, The inaugural Fellows in addition to Mr. Fichera are: • Donna M. Attanasio, George Washington University Law School Sustainable Energy Initiative; • Dr. Theresa Flaim, Energy Resource Economics, LLC; • Leslie Guliasi, Vice President, Trans Baycable/Steelriver Infrastructure Partners; • Dr. Bernard F. Neenan, Energy Resource Economics, LLC; and • Charles A. Zielinski, Of Counsel, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, LLP.The Fellows Program will assist NRRI members on critical issues such as:• Renewable energy standards, • Electrifying the grid,• increasing resilience of the energy infrastructure, • Financing alternatives including financing through securitization or other means large capital expenditures to minimize rate shock to consumers, • Early retirement of coal plants,• Increasing competition in the market to promote economic growth, and• Changing the role of customers from consumers to producers of electricity.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Teach graduate level course on financial markets and public finance.• Through lectures, case studies, and discussions with practitioners, the course examines the ways that public and private sector organizations raise capital from the international financial markets.• Identifies what practitioners in government and not–for–profit organizations need to know about financial markets, securities and risk so as to access effectively external financing sources while advancing their policy objectives.• Discusses a variety of policy issues arising from the recent global financial crisis that concern the private provision of public finance.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Teach graduate level course on financial markets.• Course analyzed the interactions between national, state and local governments and the private capital market institutions that provide public finance.• Course objectives were to better to acquaint future government officials with the range of avenues available for public finance with the analytic tools necessary to decide among them as well as deepen the students’ ability to analyze policy issues concerning the private provision of public finance.

San Francisco, California, Us

Manage global product and business development group in corporate finance with an emphasis on new product development and strategies to solve specific client problems.• Developed the firm’s role in the use of securitization/asset–backed securities for facilitating the costs of energy deregulation in the states of New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.

Strategic advisory work including new issue debt and equity business origination as well as debt restructurings for corporations primarily in power and energy. Responsibilities grew to include emerging markets (South America and India) in addition to U.S. multi–national firms and all domestic markets.• Resolved failed Dutch auction preferred stock issues for high–yield leveraged closed–end bond funds affected by the bankruptcy of Drexel, Burnham.• Pioneered the use of corporate tender offer/refinancing techniques to restructure high–coupon municipal debt sold by investor–owned power utilities for environmental compliance.• Pursued initial sovereign bond issues for emerging market economies in South Africa and Vietnam.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed Tax–Advantaged Financing Group in corporate finance division. Developed new products and business initiatives to grow corporate finance relationships in domestic and international markets.• Challenged the rapid development of the auction rate securities preferred stock market because of its effect on market integrity. Developed an alternative financing product and strategy called Share Adjusted, Broker Remarketed Equity Securities (SABRES) that was adopted by issuers such as Exxon Corporation as well as savings and loan and thrift companies.• Developed new debt and equity securities to be sold in the US municipal and corporate markets respectively to lower the cost of capital and minimize financial risk for the issuers.

Newark, New Jersey, Us

Ba, Public & International Affairs

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

B.A., Woodrow Wilson School Of Public & International Affairs