Keith Kleven

Keith Kleven has spent his entire career in public finance and joined Piper Sandler in 2006. Kleven is a managing director in the healthcare public finance group. Over the last 12 years, Kleven has completed more than 100 transactions for healthcare clients. He has completed transactions representing the full complement of financing structures including traditional, fixed-rate public offerings, direct bank placements, private placements and tax-backed healthcare transactions. In addition to co-heading the national healthcare public finance practice, Kleven focuses his practice on the west coast, primarily partnering with clients in the Pacific Northwest and California. He specializes in tax-backed debt for governmental and district hospital clients as well as traditional not-for-profit acute-care hospital and health system clients.

Kleven holds a bachelor’s degree in business with a concentration in finance from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.