Brian Forbath

Shareholder

Brian Forbath is a shareholder in the law firm of Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth. Mr. Forbath works exclusively in the public finance area, serving as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter�s counsel on a variety of financings. Mr. Forbath has extensive experience in general fund, redevelopment, public utility and land-secured financings and derivative transactions. Mr. Forbath is a 1998 graduate of Loyola Law School and attended the University of California, Santa Barbara as an undergraduate, where he also completed a semester abroad at the Universidad de Valencia, Spain. Mr. Forbath has been a lecturer on federal securities laws at the National Association of Bond Lawyers Workshop in Chicago and at the California Redevelopment Association Technical Institute in Anaheim. He is a frequent lecturer for the California Debt Investment Advisory Committee on a variety of topics. He was a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers� task force on drafting Disclosure Roles of Counsel in State and Local Government Securities Offerings (3rd Edition, 2008). Mr. Forbath works out of Stradling�s Newport Beach office, but represents clients throughout the State of California.