Career moves

Joe Geraci, who spent 24 years at Citi, most recently as co-head of the Global Spread Products division, will join investment advisor Old Orchard Capital.

Steven Kantor and Kayla MacEwen join a team that has mostly come from Hilltop, expanding Texas-based Masterson Advisors' reach deep into the Northeast.

Raymond James has hired veteran municipal banker Jim Tricolli as a managing director.

Maria Doulis, named deputy comptroller, was vice president at the watchdog Citizens Budget Commission while Todd Scheuermann, assistant comptroller in the Division of Budget and Policy Analysis, had been secretary to Senate finance committee.

Michelle Getz was named a partner of the Equitable Facilities Fund.

Five of the law firm's nine new partners are attorneys of color or women.

The public finance veteran was recently special counsel at McCarter & English.

She is credited with training a next generation of public finance leaders in Los Angeles and around Southern California.

Steven Kantor, a regional managing director based in New York, was among those cut, sources said.

A compendium of changes at municipal finance firms in 2021.

The pair will further the law firm's governance structure, said chairman Mark Ruehlmann.

Mary Kimura was one of 25 female attorneys promoted to partner globally.

Lynnette Kelly started new positions at the Financial Accounting Foundation and at the Milken Institute.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer named Dave Massaron to replace Budget Director Chris Kolb, who is taking an administrative job at the University of Michigan.

Daniel Rivera will leave Lawrence City Hall to run the state's finance and development wing.

Solomon's new role will combine his current responsibilities in the FICC Municipal platform overseeing data strategy/algorithmic trading and municipal opportunity trading units, with the bond sales, trading and underwriting teams.

Nelson, a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry, joins Hilltop's Encino, California, office.

As co-director of the Enforcement Division, Stephanie Avakian oversaw charges the SEC made against municipal bond “flipping” schemes.

Law firm appoints Robert Labes to head its public and infrastructure finance practice group with hopes for expansion if an infrastructure bill comes to fruition.

In retirement, he's launched a consulting firm that has several irons in the fire, including continued work on research products for Loop.