Lee White is a municipal bond investment banker and Managing Director at D.A. Davidson’s public finance office in Denver. His practice areas include Colorado governments and infrastructure (including stadium financing), non-profit finance (including student housing), higher education finance, renewable energy project finance, and workforce and affordable housing.
Lee has been in the investment banking business for 40 years and is responsible for underwriting over $10 billion of municipal bonds, as well as advising state, local governments, non-profit community organizations, and higher education institutions on public finance. He was lead banker to finance Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, and was financial advisor to the Denver Broncos in the financing of Empower Field. He has also financed a range of renewable energy projects in solar, wind, fuel cell, and methane capture. He has financed over 100 P3 housing bonds.
Lee came to investment banking with extensive cabinet-level experience in state government under Governor Richard Lamm. He was Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Administration in 1979-80 and then Executive Director of the Colorado Office of State Planning and Budget in 1981-82. He has served as a Trustee of the Colorado Historical Society, the Greater Denver Corporation, and is a member of the Colorado Forum. He was elected twice to the Denver Board of Education in 1996 and served for five years.
Lee received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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