Sam Gruer
Managing Director

Sam Gruer brings more than 30 years of capital market experience to his role as Managing Director at Blue Rose Capital Advisors, where he focuses on the firm’s business development efforts and providing senior advisory services. Mr. Gruer guides clients through the debt/swap/reinvestment transaction process by making strategic recommendations based on sound, thoughtful, and sophisticated analysis. During his career, Mr. Gruer has advised on and/or executed bond, derivative, and reinvest transactions totaling more than $50 billion for tax-exempt borrowers and financial institutions. He also offers expert advice on determining the optimal structure for reinvestment of bond proceeds by evaluating risk tolerance, identifying legal restrictions, and estimating cash flow needs for his clients. This expertise comes from serving as a structurer, trader, and marketer of interest rate derivatives and defeasance products at some of the largest banks and broker/dealers. He serves clients from our New York regional office.

In his latest role at Mesirow, Mr. Gruer specialized in serving Northeast and Southeast clients who issue general obligation and revenue-backed bonds and served as co-head of Mesirow’s Defeasance Solutions group. In 2008, Mr. Gruer co-founded Cityview Capital Solutions, serving as Managing Director and providing debt, swap, asset/liability management, and reinvestment advisory services to municipal and not-for-profit borrowers. His prior experience also includes leadership roles at Deutsche Bank as Director of Derivative Structuring, at JPMorgan Chase as co-founder of the municipal derivatives department, and at Prudential Securities as Head of New Products for the municipal securities division. Earlier in his career, he worked in municipal finance at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley