Siebert names Hall president of its infrastructure, public finance division

Siebert Williams Shank & Co. LLC has named Gary Hall president of its infrastructure and public finance department, the firm announced Monday.

Hall is based in the company's west coast headquarters in Oakland, California. SWS is the nation's largest woman- and minority-owned non-bank financial firm.

Hall had been serving as head of investment banking for the division. He joined SWS in 2013 as the national head of public finance banking and later became a partner.

Hall had more than three decades of experience before joining the firm. He worked in JPMorgan's public finance and investment banking group and before that in the M&A group at Banc One Capital Markets. He was a securities attorney in corporate practice specializing in SEC-related and corporate finance issues.

Earlier, he was a White House Fellow assigned to the Department of the Treasury during the Clinton administration and he worked for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley in the Office of Management and Budget.

"Gary Hall has been a leader throughout his career and has played an integral role in the growth of the Siebert Williams Shank brand on a national level," said Suzanne Shank, president and CEO of SWS. "As we continue to strengthen our national platform, I am delighted to have Gary serving as president of the infrastructure and public finance department."

Hall is a former chairman of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, the self-regulatory organization that safeguards the $4 trillion municipal securities industry.

He also served on the board of the Securities Industry and Financial Marketing Association, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's fixed income advisory committee, the Milken Institute's public finance advisory board, and the Corporate Affiliate's board of the National Association of State Treasurers.

"This enhanced role with Siebert Williams Shank is exciting and comes at a time of dynamic growth for our various practice specialties," Hall said. "The leadership, financial capabilities, and technical acumen of SWS' team of smart and highly skilled bankers is the difference maker that matters to both the market and our magnificent roster of clients."

In and around the San Francisco-Oakland Bay region, Hall serves on the executive committee of the Bay Area Council, the board of Las Trampas Inc., and is a trustee for the National Recreation Foundation and the California Academy of Sciences.

SWS is an independent non-bank financial services firm that has headquarters in New York City and Oakland. It offers investment banking, sales and trading, research and advisory services.

The firm was founded in 1996 as Siebert Brandford Shank by Muriel Siebert, the first woman with a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, along with municipal bond professionals Napoleon Brandford III and Suzanne Shank. It has grown to become a leading player in the municipal industry and a force in the corporate bond market.

The firm said that recent municipal bond offerings executed by its team as bookrunner have ranged in size from $3 million to the $1.75 billion deal for the state of California, which was the largest transaction ever senior-managed by an MWBE firm.