Texas Public Finance

Josh McLaughlin has 25 years of experience within the municipal finance industry and is dedicated to supporting the financing needs of Texas municipal issuers. As the firm’s Specialized Texas Municipal Finance Team leader, he has completed over $30 billion of financings for Texas municipal issuers over the last five years as a bond underwriter or financial advisor. McLaughlin previously served as a vice president with a national firm serving as a member of their Texas municipal finance banking team and Municipal Products Group.

As a managing director and director of Texas Public Finance, McLaughlin’s responsibilities include overseeing BOK Financial Securities, Inc.’s (BOKFS) public finance activities throughout Texas and providing investment banking services to Texas municipal issuers. McLaughlin has implemented numerous financial strategies for Texas municipal issuers, including taxable and tax-exempt fixed and variable rate debt, note programs, an array of financial products, and debt alternatives available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to name a few. In addition, McLaughlin developed BOKFS’s financial models to verify and forecast Texas school districts’ long-range debt planning and State funding assistance for debt service.

McLaughlin earned a Bachelor of Science in economics with a minor in business administration from Texas A&M University. He is a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority registered representative, currently holding Series 7, 50, 53, 54, 63, and 79 licenses.

Cole DeKinder joined BOK Financial Securities, Inc.’s Texas Municipal Finance Team in January 2018 and provides quantitative support for various municipal issuers throughout Texas.

DeKinder is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, earning a B.S. degree in finance. He is a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority registered securities representative, currently holding Series 6, 7, 50, 63 and 79 licenses.

Omar Garcia joined BOK Financial Securities' Texas public finance team in January 2011. Garcia is an icon in Texas public school finance, having spent much of his adult life working in the school finance division at the Texas Education Agency, and later in the statewide school finance arena at the Region XIII Education Service Center.

While employed at the Texas Education Agency (where he worked for over 28 years) in the Division of State Funding, he became an expert on the use of technology to audit and estimate a school district's state aid and anticipated overall revenues, a necessary component to producing annual budgets. This expertise led Garcia to develop one of the first widely used electronic templates to help public school personnel estimate state aid for use in school budgets. Today, this trusted tool is used by every Texas district regardless of wealth or size.

Garcia is a registered securities representative with Series 52 and 63 licenses.

Alison Long joined BOK Financial Securities' Texas public finance team in June 2009 and is primarily responsible for supporting the firm’s bond underwriting and municipal advisory engagements. She provides refunding analysis, debt structuring, cash flow models, credit analysis, and continuing disclosure documents for various municipal issuers throughout Texas.

Long earned a Bachelor's in business administration summa cum laude in finance and a Bachelor of Science with financial applications degree summa cum laude in economics from Southern Methodist University. She is a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority registered securities representative, holding Series 7, 50, 63, and 79 licenses.

John Robuck is a managing director in the Houston Municipal Finance office of BOK Financial Securities. He specializes in Texas financial advisory, municipal underwriting, and private placement services. As managing director, Robuck’s responsibilities include providing investment banking services to the firm’s clients while playing a role in the analytical and quantitative analyses performed for various regional issuers. Robuck has structured and assisted in issuing more than 500 bond transactions totaling more than $25 billion in par amount in his 22 years in the industry. Robuck’s financial advisory clients include more than 25 school districts, cities, counties, and special district municipalities in Houston. Robuck has successfully implemented numerous financial strategies, including taxable and tax-exempt fixed and variable rate debt, note programs, and various financial products.

Robuck joined BOK Financial Securities in January 2012. Previously, Robuck was a vice president with RBC Capital Markets, serving as their Texas Municipal Finance banking team member.

Robuck is a registered securities representative with Series 7, 50, 63, 65, and 79 licenses. He holds a B.B.A. in finance and management information systems from Baylor University.