Dominick Setari - email
Vice President, New York

Dominick Setari joined the Ramirez & Co. Public Finance Group in July 2004. Mr. Setari was previously a Vice President with the LIATI Group where he worked on a total volume of $2.5 billion in leveraged lease transactions in the role of lessee advisor, helping municipal clients generate over $215 million in funds. He played a critical role in helping the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority close the first ever Pickle Lease - RVI transaction done in North America for a convention center property. He also assisted the New York MTA in closing its first ever Qualified Technological Equipment (QTE) lease on its MetroCard fare collection system. More recently, he completed transactions on certain light rail cars run by the San Francisco Municipal Railway and buses operated by the Chicago Transit Authority.

Prior to joining LIATI, Dominick Setari was Manager of Financial Analysis at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City where he had primary responsibility for analyzing proposals and executing transactions in the areas of bond issuance, municipal swaps, and leveraged leases. Mr. Setari was actively involved in more than 40 transactions with a volume of over $8 billion, and was instrumental in structuring and closing the MTA's first interest rate swap option transaction, its first warrants transaction, and in the establishment of its first commercial paper program.

Mr. Setari received his BS in Finance from Fordham University and an MBA in Finance from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University in New York.