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Robert Doty provides litigation consulting and expert witness services regarding disclosure and due diligence in municipal bond transactions, and the roles and responsibilities of parties, including issuers, conduit borrowers, underwriters and dealers, municipal advisors and counsel (bond, underwriter, disclosure and issuer counsel). Mr. Doty has served in each of those legal and business capacities during his 45-year career in the financial markets. Mr. Doty has extensive experience in the development of recognized and authoritative market guidance publications and has published numerous books and articles on municipal finance.

Services

Mr. Doty provides municipal bonds expert witness services and litigation consulting services. These are described in greater detail at http://agfs.com/.

Litigation Support Services

Given his unique combination of financial and legal experience, Mr. Doty is able to discuss municipal bond market and financial concepts in depth with legal counsel.

Areas of Expertise

• Banking
• Due Diligence
• Due Diligence
• Financial
• Financial Analysis

• Fraud
• Government
• Local Government
• Municipal Bonds
• Municipal Disclosure

• Municipal Securities and Finance
• Public Finance
• Securities

Additional Expertise:

SEC Enforcement, SEC Rule 15c2-12, Local Government, Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, MSRB Rules, Disclosure, Due diligence, Conduit Bonds, Municipal Securities, Municipal Underwriters, Municipal Bond Counsel, Municipal Underwriters, Municipal Issuers, Municipal Officials

Profile

Mr. Doty has participated in more than 145 consultations and has testified approximately 70 times in depositions and at trial.

Mr. Doty participated as counsel, investment banker and financial advisor for more than 45 years in billions of dollars of successful municipal bond offerings, secondary offerings of municipal securities portfolios, workouts of defaulted bonds, and corporate finance transactions benefiting local governments and private corporations in approximately two dozen states. He continues to serve as consultant to, and municipal bond expert witness on municipal finance in consultation with, legal counsel to municipal securities issuers, underwriters, municipal advisors, bond counsel, trustees, investors and governmental agencies.

Mr. Doty served as General Counsel to the Government Finance Officers Association, and served as a member of the GFOA Disclosure Task Force from the mid-1970s to 1991. He has served on the Board of Governors of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and as a member and officer of NFMA Disclosure Committees. He was Chair of the Southern Municipal Fiance Society, and a member and officer of committees of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and American Bar Association. . He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Section on Economic Development/Finance and Securities of the International Municipal Lawyers Association. In his various roles, Mr. Doty has worked in drafting roles with several industry committees in the preparation of recognized and authoritative municipal securities disclosure guidance for issuers, underwriters and other participants. He is the author of numerous books and articles regarding municipal bond transactions.

Consulting Practice

All states. Has testified as an expert on the finance industry in federal courts in Kentucky, Illinois and Iowa, and state courts in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Nevada, New Jersey and Virginia; before Administrative Law Judges of the Securities and Exchange Commission; before arbitration panels of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority; and by video before the special investigative Subcommittee of the New Mexico House of Representatives.

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