Kyle Javes

Kyle Javes is a managing director at Piper Sandler and head of municipal markets. His team focuses on the underwriting, structuring, distribution and trading of a variety of transactions in the municipal market including tax-exempt and taxable debt in the investment grade, high yield, private placement and municipal structured product areas. Javes specializes in structuring custom and often creative capital solutions. His team has raised over $100 billion in capital for their clients over the past five years utilizing both public offerings and private placements. He leads a team with market leading expertise in raising debt capital for state and local governments, K-12 schools, special districts, hospitality, affordable housing, senior living, project finance, healthcare, transportation, charter schools and other general governmental purposes. In addition to origination, he leads an institutional sales and trading team focused on providing liquidity across all municipal products. 

Prior to returning to Piper Sandler, Javes was a director and head of underwriting and high yield trading at Ziegler. Prior to that, Javes served as senior vice president of municipal trading at Dougherty & Co., now Colliers International. Javes started his career at Piper Sandler in the municipal derivatives group and underwriting and trading team, where he worked from 2005-2012.

Javes holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Boston College, as well as the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.