Elizabeth Gallagher-Coolidge

Ms. Coolidge recently joined UBS Financial Services Inc. as Managing Director and Head of the Public Finance Central Region. She began her career in the public finance industry more than 28 years ago, working her way from an institutional bond salesperson at a local bank to head of the Capital Markets Public Finance Group for the Chicago office at PNC in February 2013. Prior to that, Ms. Coolidge worked for PNC Capital Markets Public Finance Group,

She has served as lead banker and underwritten over $30 billion of tax-exempt securities for such issuers as the State of Illinois, State of Ohio, State of Wisconsin, State of Indiana, State of Michigan, Cook County, City of Chicago, and City of Milwaukee, to name a few. Most recently, Ms. Coolidge has served as senior managing underwriter for two Chicago Public Schools deals in 2014, and two Chicago Water deals, one in 2014 and the other in 2016. Ms. Coolidge also served as senior managing underwriter for a State of Wisconsin COPs deal in 2016. All of these senior managed transactions marked the first time that PNC served as senior managing underwriter for each of these clients. Since 2014, Ms. Coolidge and her team have served as senior managing underwriter on over $1.6 billion in par.

Ms. Coolidge also served as the lead banker on the groundbreaking Chicago Housing Authority Capital Program Revenue Bonds, Series 2001. This transaction marked the first time that a local housing authority was able to sell highly rated, tax-exempt bonds, backed solely by the federal grants that the Authority received from HUD. This financing set the framework for future financings of this nature and was awarded the inaugural “Deal of the Year” by The Bond Buyer in December 2002.

Ms. Coolidge is a lifelong resident of the City of Chicago. She currently resides with her husband and three children in the Edgebrook neighborhood on Chicago’s Northwest Side. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois-Urbana on a General Assembly Scholarship.