Kemp Lewis

Kemp joined Raymond James in February 2009. He leads our banking coverage for the City of New York, including New York City Water Finance Authority, and works with bankers across our platform to develop innovative solutions to some of the more complex financial problems facing issuers in today’s market environment. Kemp is a noted industry expert on pension liability and strategies to address them. As a managing director at Goldman Sachs prior to joining Raymond James, he led their banking coverage for the City of New York, co‐headed the municipal derivative marketing group and served as the analytical banker for a number of the firm’s key clients. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Kemp led the quantitative banking group at Lehman Brothers where he worked for five years and was a junior banker at Salomon Brothers and Dean Witter. In his 28 years as a public finance banker, he has worked on the development of numerous complex credit and bond structures for issuers in every sector of the municipal market. For the City of New York, he was a part of the team that senior managed the groundbreaking inaugural issue of the Transitional Finance Authority and led Goldman’s banking teams on the $2.5 billion 2004 financing by the Sales Tax Asset Receivable Corporation to refinance and extend the remaining debt of MAC and the 2006 inaugural $2 billion issue for the Hudson Yards Infrastructure Corporation. Kemp majored in Philosophy at the College of Charleston and received a Master of Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University.