George Longo
George Longo is a managing director in the project finance group of °µÍø³Ô¹Ï where he focuses on the firm’s project finance debt and project equity placement efforts throughout North America and Europe. Longo joined °µÍø³Ô¹Ï in August 2016 after 34 years with Raymond James & Associates and UBS Investment Bank.
Longo has over 40 years of municipal, corporate and project finance experience. Longo has particular expertise in corporate-related tax-exempt and taxable financings for various project developments including renewable power and energy, infrastructure, power generation, pulp and paper, forest products, petrochemicals, manufacturing facilities, pollution control and solid waste disposal. Longo joined Kidder, Peabody’s investment banking department in 1983 and specialized in municipal infrastructure and project finance in the U.S. He was named a managing director of Kidder, Peabody in 1992 and joined PaineWebber in 1994 in connection with its acquisition of certain assets of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated. From April 1999 through the end of 2004, Longo managed The Project Capital Group, a boutique advisory firm specializing in project finance. Longo rejoined UBS at the beginning of 2005 after its acquisition of PaineWebber to initiate the project finance practice at UBS that had been eliminated in the late 1990s and then joined Raymond James in September 2008 to head up their newly created project finance efforts.
Longo received a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in finance from the University of Notre Dame Mendoza School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and government from Lake Forest College in Illinois.