Omar Daghestani

Omar Daghestani, Managing Director, leads Stifel�s upper Midwest and Northeast practices, and has senior managed transactions totaling $22.1 billion for issuers including the States of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Three of these transactions received The Bond Buyer�s Midwest Deal of the Year award. Mr. Daghestani has covered state, city, county, and authority level issuers over the course of his career and is well versed in all aspects of state bond acts, constitutional requirements, pension liabilities, and budget processes.Mr. Daghestani is a regular speaker at industry conferences, on pension, OPEB, GASB and other matters, serves as a guest lecturer on public finance at Harvard�s Kennedy School of Government, and is a Board Member of the Civic Federation of Chicago. Mr. Daghestani earned a B.A. with Honors in Economics and was elected Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern University, and an M.P.P. from Harvard�s Kennedy School of Government.�