Robert Feyer is a partner in the San Francisco and Sacramento offices, and a member of the Public Finance Department, with more than 30 years experience representing issuers and underwriters of municipal bonds. Mr. Feyer's principal client is the State of California.
Since 1986, Mr. Feyer has been the lead bond counsel for the State, handling the issuance of general obligation bonds, cash flow notes and warrants, and lease revenue obligations. Mr. Feyer was recognized by The American Lawyer magazine in April 2003 as one of 10 "Dealmakers of the Year" for his work on a $12.5 billion cash flow note borrowing in October 2002. Over the past 24 years Mr. Feyer has supervised issuance of hundreds of billions of dollars of bonds and notes for the State, including three of the five largest long-term municipal bond issues in U.S. history.
Mr. Feyer also has an active practice in private activity financing for such purposes as solid waste disposal, pollution control and industrial development. For more than 25 years, he has been a lead bond counsel for the California Pollution Control Financing Authority.
From 1972 to 1975, Mr. Feyer took a leave of absence from Orrick, doing military service as a Captain in the United States Air Force where he was on the staff of the Air Force General Counsel, and later serving as a legislative assistant to a United States Senator in Washington D.C.