Robinson Bradshaw’s Allen Robertson Elected President-Elect of National Association of Bond Lawyers

Allen K. Robertson, an attorney with Robinson Bradshaw, one of the Carolinas’ leading corporate and commercial law firms, has been elected to serve as president-elect of the National Association of Bond Lawyers for 2012-13. Robertson will serve as president of the association in 2013-14.

Robertson’s election occurred Oct. 24 at the 2012 annual meeting of the National Association of Bond Lawyers in Chicago.

Robertson is actively involved in Robinson Bradshaw’s public finance, banking, bankruptcy and health care practices. He regularly serves as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, bank counsel and borrower counsel in a variety of tax-exempt bond issues.

He received his bachelor’s degree with highest honors in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and he earned his law degree from Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel and is regularly included among annual national and regional peer group rankings, including The Best Lawyers in America by Woodward/White Inc., Chambers USA and North Carolina Super Lawyers. Robertson also holds an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

The National Association of Bond Lawyers, whose approximately 2,800 members include the nation’s leading public finance attorneys, was founded in 1979 to promote the integrity of the municipal market by advancing the understanding of and compliance with the law affecting public finance.