Steve Scharff is a director with Baker Tilly Municipal Advisors, LLC. His experience primarily consists of serving state and local government organizations by providing nuanced capital finance solutions through comprehensive debt and capital structuring; ongoing debt management; performing security pricing analysis; proforma cashflow forecasting including Tax Increment, special district revenues, housing/project finance modeling, structuring effective underwriting/lending requests for proposals, reviewing legal documents and performing various ad-hoc reporting and analysis.
Registered municipal advisor representative
- Client service sectors include state, city, county and housing authorities, higher-education and student loan institutions
- Relative value security pricing analysis
- Proforma forecasting/complex revenue modeling (including sales tax, tax increment, assessment, special districts, etc.)
- Comprehensive and Complex Debt structuring and refinancing
- Ad-Hoc financial analysis
- Worked as a structured finance analyst for an international banking firm where he participated in the closing and debt service performance of various asset-backed securities
- National Federation of Municipal Analysts (NFMA), Minnesota chapter
- National Association of Municipal Advisors
- Montana League of Cities and Towns
- Minnesota Government Finance Officers Association
- Series 65 Uniform Investment Advisor certification
- Bond Buyer Rising Star 2023 award recipient
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