Claude Lockhart

Claude Lockhart, Jr., Director, serves in Stifel’s Chicago Public Finance office, where he provides banking coverage and quantitative expertise for large issuers in the Midwest and Northeast as well as certain pension-related financings nationally.

He has served on financing teams for over $4 billion of lead-managed transactions across a variety of credits and market conditions for states and state agencies, cities, towns, counties, fire districts, joint powers authorities, and water and wastewater utilities. He is particularly experienced in credit analysis and rating discussions, investor outreach, pension liability management, and revenue securitization (sales tax revenue, contractual revenue, and state revolving fund loan and lease revenue, among others).

Mr. Lockhart received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Chicago.