R. Hart Lee

Hart Lee focuses his practice on municipal and corporate finance, including tax-exempt bonds, structured finance, corporate securities, corporate trust law, exempt organizations, and general corporate law.

Mr. Lee’s tax-exempt bond counsel representation ranges from municipal general tax-supported obligations to state, charitable and educational institution revenue bonds and tax-exempt leases and lease-backed obligations to all types of private activity bonds, including small-issue manufacturing facilities, exempt facilities, multifamily housing and tax increment and special tax districts. He has acted as bond counsel and/or borrower’s counsel for numerous issues to provide facilities for private colleges and schools and other charitable organizations. He also serves as counsel in debt financings to underwriters and issuers of both taxable and tax-exempt bonds.

Hart Lee focuses his practice on municipal and corporate finance, including tax-exempt bonds, structured finance, corporate securities, corporate trust law, exempt organizations, and general corporate law.

Mr. Lee’s tax-exempt bond counsel representation ranges from municipal general tax-supported obligations to state, charitable and educational institution revenue bonds and tax-exempt leases and lease-backed obligations to all types of private activity bonds, including small-issue manufacturing facilities, exempt facilities, multifamily housing and tax increment and special tax districts. He has acted as bond counsel and/or borrower’s counsel for numerous issues to provide facilities for private colleges and schools and other charitable organizations. He also serves as counsel in debt financings to underwriters and issuers of both taxable and tax-exempt bonds.

Through his representation of bank corporate trust departments, Mr. Lee has developed substantial experience in counseling indenture trustees, both in the initial evaluation and documentation of complex debt financings and in the risk-laden arena of troubled and defaulted debt issues. As corporate trust counsel, he has participated in lease-backed, mortgage-backed and asset-backed issues, both for initial issuances and in restructuring situations. He has represented bond trustees in numerous troubled or defaulted issues, involving workouts, foreclosures and refinancings.

Mr. Lee is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar and of the Richmond, Virginia, and American bar associations, where he is also a member of the sections on corporate and business law. Martindale Hubbell has rated Mr. Lee an AV attorney, its highest rating available. In addition, he is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and The Bond Club of Virginia.

Mr. Lee joined Williams Mullen upon his graduation from law school. He received his juris doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1976, after serving three years in the U.S. Navy. He received his undergraduate degree in 1970 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a National Merit Scholar, and a Morehead Scholar.