Dennis J. Enright
Dennis J. Enright is a founding member and Principal of NW Financial specializing in complex infrastructure, governmental and real estate transactions, including public private partnerships. Mr. Enright is a nationally recognized expert in toll road asset monetization and has appeared before the US Congress to deliver expert testimony on public private partnerships. Mr. Enright has undertaken assignments in transportation, solid waste, water, wastewater, healthcare, housing, and real estate. His leadership in the innovative restructuring of a public facility to a public private partnership led to a “Deal of the Year “Award for the $360 million Union County Utility Authority bond financing in 1998. His transportation expertise resulted in a “Deal of the Year” award for the $2.4 Billion New Jersey Turnpike Authority transaction merging the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway. Mr. Enright has authored detailed analyses of both the Chicago Skyway and Indiana Toll Road P3 transactions that have provide transparency to the underlying economics of the deals.
Prior to forming NW Financial, Mr. Enright served as Senior Managing Director of NatWest Bank and was responsible for governmental advisory services and underwritings. During his tenure at NatWest, he was responsible for providing services in: municipal finance; institutional advisory products; private placements; bond underwritings; tax credit investments; letters of credit; and bridge loans. Prior to joining NatWest Bank, Mr. Enright operated Enright & Company, a private investment banking firm, which handled over $5 billion of financing assignments in its 9 years of operations. Enright & Company was awarded an Institutional Investor “Deal of the Year” for its work at the New Jersey Highway Authority.
Mr. Enright has over 35 years of experience in all aspects of financial advisory and investment banking, Mr. Enright started his career in the public sector for eight years and held the position of Jersey City’s Director of Planning and Development, where he was responsible for the master planning of the Hudson River waterfront revitalization.
EDUCATION
New York University
School of Public Administration
Master’s Degree
St. Peter’s College
Bachelor of Science
FINRA LICENSES
7 (Full Registration/General Securities Representative)
24 (General Securities Principal)
28 (Introducing Broker-Dealer/Financial and Operations Principal)
50 (Municipal Advisor Representative)
53 (Municipal Securities Principal)
54 (Municipal Advisor Principal)
63 (Uniform Securities Agent)
79 (Investment Banking Representative)
SIE (Securities Industry Essentials Examination)