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Bill Fawell began his career in the public sector working for over nine years in various city management positions for the California Cities of Torrance, Rolling Hills Estates, and Palos Verdes Estates. While employed in the public sector he was responsible for city administration, contract services, community relations, personnel, labor relations, recreation, budget preparation, risk management and community development. This broad background in municipal management has given him keen insight into the governmental processes in which both appointed and elected officials operate.
He has over 35 years of experience in municipal finance, working as both a municipal financial advisor and bond underwriter to local government agencies. During his career in public finance he has completed 139 separate financings totaling over $1.007 billion dollars for 75 separate local government agencies and non-profit organizations.
Bill began his career in public finance in 1985 with the investment banking firm of Miller & Schroeder Financial, Inc., in Solana Beach, California, where he worked as a bond underwriter and municipal financial advisor to local government agencies. In 1987, he joined the municipal underwriting and financial advisory firm of M. F. Whipple & Co., Inc., in Laguna Niguel, California, that became Whipple, Kinsell & O'Neal. In 1994, Bill founded W. J. Fawell Co. to provide municipal financial advisory services, specializing in arranging publicly issued and privately placed tax exempt and taxable financing for local government agencies and non-profit organizations.
Since entering the field of public finance, he has specialized in public infrastructure financing for new public facilities. The firm specializes in refinancing all forms of municipal debt obligations with the goal of saving clients’ money.
He has a broad background in public finance and has utilized all available debt instruments to complete a given financing. He has extensive experience in using tax-exempt and taxable tax allocation refunding bonds issued by successor agencies, tax exempt-leases, certificates of participation, revenue bonds, general obligation bonds, Marx-Roos bonds, special assessment bonds, Mello-Roos community facility district bonds and health care revenue bonds.
Bill is a Registered Municipal Advisor and Principal with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) and the SEC. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from California State University, Long Beach and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Public Administration with a minor in Business Administration from California State University, Chico. He is a veteran and served in the U.S. Army, 4th BN, 18th Infantry Division, Berlin, Germany (Honorable Discharge). W. J. Fawell Co. is a veteran owned firm.