Transaction Experience

For more than 20 years, Julie Needham has been working with a variety of municipalities, many repeatedly, throughout New Jersey. With substantial large-transaction experience, Ms. Needham has often dealt with financings that required coordinating multiple parties or overcoming structuring challenges.

Repeat Business

Issuer # Transactions
City of Elizabeth 44
Township of Irvington 17
Joint Meeting of Essex and Union Counties 12
City of Asbury Park 7
Township of Logan 6
City of Plainfield 5
Union County Improvement Authority 4
Township of Robbinsville 4
Passaic County Improvement Authority 3

Experience Statewide

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Sample Large Transactions

Closing Date Issuer / Transaction Amount
12/15/11 Union County Utilities Authority
Resource Recovery Facility Lease Revenue Bonds
$136,745,000
05/19/23 Joint Meeting of Essex and Union Counties
Flood Mitigation Facilities Project, Phase III (I-Bank Financing)
79,865,000
12/29/11 Union County Utilities Authority
Solid Waste System Revenue Refunding Bonds
69,080,000
10/31/16 Bergen County Improvement Authority
County Guaranteed Governmental Loan Revenue Bonds
65,150,000
08/29/12 Passaic County Improvement Authority
Preakness Healthcare Center Expansion Project, Lease Revenue Refunding Bonds
57,425,000
11/20/14 County of Hudson
General Obligation Refunding Bonds
55,645,000
11/01/21 County of Passaic
CARES Municipal Reimbursement Program
38,829,932
04/09/15 City of Elizabeth
General Obligation Bonds
36,575,000

Note: Financial advisory services provided by Ms. Needham for transactions between October 2003 and January 2020 were performed under the auspices of Powell Capital Markets, Inc.; those between February 2020 and March 2023, through NW Financial Group, Inc.