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..
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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:

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.
• 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’.

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.
• 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.
• 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