Robert Haight, Jr.

Robert Haight Jr. is a leading estate attorney with nearly three decades of experience counseling clients on complex municipal and public finance matters, with particular expertise in Mello-Roos Community Facilities Districts (CFDs) and Infrastructure Financing Districts. He also has experience providing counsel to developers, bondholders, underwriters, financial advisors, special districts, and other governmental agencies throughout California.

Robert represents master developers and merchant builders in single-family, multifamily, commercial, industrial, and retail developments. He is widely recognized as a leading attorney in the land-secured infrastructure bond field. Robert has handled all phases of municipal bond issues—from planning (development, financing, and mitigation agreements) to implementation (bond issuance and disclosure) to post-issuance matters (continuing disclosure, refundings, and workouts). In addition, he has advised clients on the issuance, refinancing, and restructuring of tax-exempt and taxable bonds, including special-tax bonds, tax increment bonds, assessment bonds, industrial development bonds, general fund obligation bonds, tax and revenue anticipation notes (TRANs), revenue bonds, certificates of participation, and other lease/installment purchase transactions.

Robert has served as developers' counsel on new and refinanced issues and has assisted in drafting and implementing development agreements, financing plans, and mitigation agreements. He has prepared required bond documents, official statements, private placement memoranda, and other disclosure documents, and has provided advice on state and federal securities laws. Additionally, he has conducted forensic reviews of troubled bond issues on behalf of developers, issuers, and bondholders, and has counseled clients in several high-profile bond workouts.