Walter Kulakowski

Managing Director

Wally Kulakowski is a managing director in the Public Finance group at Mesirow Financial. He specializes in a wide variety of infrastructure financing.Wally has over 25 years of public finance experience, including municipal debt financings in water and sewer, state revolving fund, power, waste-to-energy, public-private infrastructure and project finance transactions.� Prior to joining Mesirow Financial in 2015, he served as a managing director at Guggenheim Securities, where he developed P3 infrastructure projects and engineered a buy-side asset acquisition structure using an innovative municipal special purpose vehicle.� Wally was a 20-year veteran of Citigroup where he headed the solid waste and state revolving fund finance practices and co-headed the water and sewer finance practice.� He also worked at Stone & Youngberg and Roosevelt & Cross. Previously, Wally administered air pollution control programs for the State of Indiana and the City of Indianapolis, and was a Washington DC based energy and environmental consultant.Wally earned a BSc from McGill University.�