Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

With more than 25 years of experience, Mr. Crawford has completed financings for a wide variety of transportation projects. He has personally completed more than $27 billion of financing for various undertakings, and has assisted on or supervised numerous others. He is also experienced in Public Private Initiatives for transportation, and has worked on various types of transportation financings, including: highway projects, bridges, light rail, toll facilities, and airports.

Mary Francoeur joined Assured Guaranty in February 2008.� She is a Managing Director responsible for business origination for US Public Finance and Project Finance and Utilities in the Americas.� Previously, Mary worked at FGIC and Moody’s Investors Service; she started her career in financial management roles with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the City of Jersey City.Mary has a Master of Public Administration degree from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University where she also earned her BA in newspaper journalism and political science.� She is an officer of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts (from which she received a Meritorious Service Award in 2014); past Chairman of the Municipal Analysts Group of New York; a member of the Board of Governors of the Municipal Forum of New York; a founding member of the Board of the Northeast Women in Public Finance; and a trustee and treasurer of the South Orange-Maplewood Adult School.�

Michael A. Vaccari is the Co-Head of the firm’s Infrastructure Finance Team and a Deputy Group Leader of the Public Finance Group of Nixon Peabody LLP. With 30 years of experience, he has served as counsel in hundreds of financings covering a broad range of projects and finance structures, including transportation, housing and derivatives. He represents the United States Department of Transportation on its TIFIA credit assistance program and advised USDOT on the drafting and structuring of its template loan documentation published in 2008 and the original legal and program documents that created the TIFIA Program. He represented USDOT as a subordinate lender on the first transportation PPP project in the United States (SR 125), the first transportation PABs and HOT lanes financing (Capital Beltway), the first refinancing under SAFETEA-LU (Pocahontas Parkway), on SH 130 – a $1.3 billion toll road privatization in Texas, Triangle Expressway in North Carolina and the rental car facility at Miami International Airport. In addition, he represented lenders and underwriters on one of the bidding teams for the I-595 PPP project in Florida, on I-635 in Texas and on two of the finalist bidding teams for the NYSDOT PPP RFP.Mr. Vaccari represented New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the largest debt restructuring in history. The MTA’s program involved $14.5 billion of bonds in 18 transactions over a 7 month period. He has served as counsel on over $2 billion of swap transactions for MTA, AIG SunAmerica, Freddie Mac and USDOT. Prior to joining Nixon Peabody LLP, he was Deputy Executive Director, General Counsel and Secretary of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the largest transportation provider in the country. Mr. Vaccari began his legal career in public finance with the New York City Law Department in 1978. Four years later, he joined the public finance group at the law firm of Brown & Wood, where he remained until joining the MTA.

David Narefsky is a partner in Mayer Brown LLP’s Government and Global Trade practice.� He has had an active role in high-profile PPP transactions, with particular responsibility for governmental, finance �and regulatory aspects. �He advised the underwriters of the issuance of $400 million private activity bonds to finance a portion of the cost of construction of the Denver FasTracks Eagle P3 Project. This project was named 2010 North American Transport Deal of the Year by Project Finance Magazine and 2010 Regional Deal of the Year by The Bond Buyer. David was named a “Dealmaker of the Year” by the American Lawyer for his work on the Denver FasTracks financing. He led our representation of WVB East End Partners, the winning bidder for the East End Crossing, and is leading our representation of a short-listed proposer for the Portsmouth Bypass in Ohio.A 1979 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he served as Deputy Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago, where he managed the transactional and commercial legal work of the City, before joining Mayer Brown in 1989.�

D.J. Gribbin is a Managing Director and Head, US Government Advisory and Relations for Macquarie Capital, having spent 17 years working on public policy and business development in the infrastructure sector.� �He has led advisory teams working on transactions in Puerto Rico, New Jersey, Texas and Colorado and has worked on numerous public private partnership deals in the US.Mr. Gribbin most recently served as the General Counsel for the United States Department of Transportation. As the General Counsel, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the principal legal advisor to the Secretary and for the Department. �His work in the infrastructure sector also includes serving as Chief Counsel to the Federal Highway Administration and Director of Business Development for Koch Industries, where he also served as Director of Government Affairs.� His varied professional background began on Capitol Hill, where he worked for U.S. Representative Larry Combest.� He also has served as a legislative representative for a trade association representing small business and as a grassroots organizer.�Mr. Gribbin has authored articles on payroll tax deposits and aviation policy.� He is the only person to win ARTBA�s public-private venture award for service in both the public and private sector, and is a two-time winner of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation�s Gold Award, the Department�s highest award.� He is a past president of ARTBA�s PPP division.Mr. Gribbin received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Georgetown University and his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He has also attended the Mandarin Training Center in Taipei, Taiwan.

Paul is responsible for Transportation and Energy infrastructure coverage in JPMorgan's Public Finance group. In addition to underwriting traditional public finance transactions, Paul's team works on P3 transactions advising both public authorities and equity investors. The JPMorgan team has worked on many innovative structures to deliver projects for public authorities, including most recently CTRMA, Denver RTD, NTTA, Washington State, TXDOT and BATA. Prior to his role in Public Finance, Paul worked in Equity Capital Markets, Investment Banking coverage and Mergers and Acquisitions. Paul has a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University and an MBA from Yale.

Eric Zampol is presently a Director with BMO Capital Markets in the firm’s Infrastructure Banking group. He has over ten years of experience working in both Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Capital Markets. Recently, Mr. Zampol served as sole sell-side advisor to Cenovus Energy Inc. on the successful sale of its Kitimat Marine Terminal (BC) to Royal Dutch Shell PLC and its joint venture partners. He is presently engaged as P3 or sell-side advisor to the Illinois International Port District (Port of Chicago), Port St. Joe (FL), and Melford International Terminals (NS).Eric’s prior mergers and acquisitions experience includes managing valuation analytics and due diligence for Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Partners’ purchase of a minority stake in Carrix Inc., advising Highstar Capital and its Ports America unit on multiple projects, along with reaching the final bidding round for the Vancouver and New York container terminal assets of Orient Overseas Container Line. Within debt capital markets, Eric participated as book-running senior manager in over $20 billion of taxable and tax-exempt debt underwritings and derivatives transactions for infrastructure entities such as the Port of Seattle (Terminal 30 conversion) and the Reno ReTRAC rail corridor.Eric also has experience working in the utility sector most recently having served as sell-side advisor to the Lower Colorado River Authority in its sale of 30 water and wastewater utilities. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, Mr. Zampol worked for Goldman Sachs in its Investment Banking Division. Mr. Zampol graduated with honors from Dartmouth College with a degree in Economics.

�For 30 years, clients have relied on Barney Allison for practical and strategic guidance in the public finance and infrastructure fields.Mr. Allison offers public agencies unique expertise with specialized finance issues in infrastructure transactions, including the use of public and private debt, private equity and federal credit assistance – particularly the TIFIA and Private Activity Bond programs.� He helps clients navigate through all elements of P3s and other innovative project delivery methods.�Chambers-rated nationally and globally in the field of P3s, Mr. Allison is a nationally recognized bond counsel and has acted as bond, underwriter, disclosure, issuer and special developer counsel for capital improvement projects involving a wide range of revenue and funding sources.� He has guided financing transactions for bridges, tunnels, highways and toll roads; transit and commuter rail systems; and government office buildings, parking complexes and criminal justice centers.�Practice Areas & IndustriesInfrastructureCorporatePublic Agency LawPublic FinanceTransportationProject FinanceEducationJ.D., University of Southern California School of Law, 1979B.A., Amherst College, 1976, with honorsAdmittedCaliforniaAwards & Honors“Noted Practitioner” nationally and globally in the field of PPPs, Chambers USA, 2014 and 2015�Southern California "Super Lawyer" for government finance, Los Angeles magazine, 2014, 2015 and 2016.“Top 30 Real Estate Attorneys,” Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal, 2012Professional AffiliationsNational Association of Bond LawyersTransportation Research Board: Revenue and Finance Committee�

Chee Mee Hu is a Managing Director for Moody�s Project Finance and Infrastructure Group focusing on the Americas, including Canada, the U.S. and Latin America. Prior to joining the Global Project Finance and Infrastructure Group, Chee Mee was a member of Moody�s Corporate Finance group and also the Regional Credit Officer for Moody�s Latin America Corporate Finance Ratings. Prior to that, Chee Mee was Team Managing Director of the Infrastructure Finance Group within Public Finance for six years. As team leader and a senior member of Moody�s Rating Committee, Chee Mee is involved in all facets of the rating process for all project finance sectors, including toll roads, airports, ports and power.Prior to joining Moody�s, Chee Mee was a Vice President in Kidder, Peabody & Co.�s Public Finance Investment Banking Department with a focus on general infrastructure and transportation.Chee Mee has a Master�s degree in Business Administration from Columbia University and a Master�s degree and a Doctorate in Art History from New York University.