DALLAS, TX, May 25, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Robert R. Veach Jr. with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Mr. Veach celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
In his last semester of law school, Bob began clerking for the Honorable Joe E. Estes, Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas and Judge, Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals of the U.S. Following his clerkship, Bob began his legal career in 1976 with Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney and Neely in Dallas in 1976. Focusing his practice on corporate securities and tax-exempt mortgage finance, he later joined The Lomas & Nettleton Company as a vice president of the firm's new business, product development and bond administration division. At Lomas he continued to build on his expertise in tax-exempt housing bonds, structured private residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities offerings and was a member of the pension and institutional real estate advisory group at Lomas. Following this period, Mr. Veach served as a vice president of Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Inc., a premier investment banking firm in Dallas where he was manager of the mortgage and asset-backed securities group and was President of RPR's conduit finance subsidiary. At RPR he was responsible for the development of collateralized debt products and the growth of RPR's mortgage finance investment banking capabilities. He was a Registered Representative of the National Association of Securities Dealers and an Allied Member of the New York Stock Exchange. Ultimately, he rejoined Locke Purnell (now Locke Lord LLP) in 1987, where he spent the next 10 years as a senior shareholder of the corporate section specializing in securitization and structured finance before going into practice for himself.
During his career, Bob became a recognized expert in various aspects of financial transactions including tax-exempt mortgage revenue bond issues and taxable residential and commercial mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities issues totaling in the billions. Bob has testified as an expert witness to state and federal legislative bodies on housing finance, participated in the drafting of housing, mortgage finance and tax legislation, and has been a speaker at a variety of professional legal, accounting and real estate programs regarding structured finance. Bob was instrumental in the passage of enabling legislation for the state housing agency and local housing finance programs in Texas and served as the Washington State Mortgage Bankers' representative on Governor Spellman's Housing Task Force leading to passage of legislation which created the Washington Housing Finance Commission. He also was involved in the establishment and initial operational startup and bond issuance of state housing agencies in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio and Washington and numerous local housing finance entities. Bob has participated in the drafting and standardization of program documents for various multi-lender/servicer and master servicer mortgage programs and spoken at lender programs across the country to explain the documentation and special tax and program rules for mortgages to be made to low and moderate income borrowers.
In 1998, having accrued more than 20 years of expertise, Mr. Veach formed his own private practice law firm in Dallas specializing in start-up businesses, capital raising, structured finance, securitization and general business issues. He has represented lessors in structured operating lease and sale lease back transactions involving gas stations, office buildings, oil field equipment and other assets in transactions totaling in the billions, including acting as Issuer's counsel in publicly registered collateralized debt offerings. Bob has participated in the creation of national credit card banks for a large national retailer and a national energy company and in the securitization of credit card receivables and wholesale trade accounts for these clients. Bob also served as special counsel to a national mortgage lender in connection with the purchase and sale of mortgage servicing and master servicing portfolios and sale of delinquent and defaulted mortgage loans under various securitization structures. In addition, Bob assisted the National Community Stabilization Trust, organized in 2008 to deal with the national housing and foreclosure crisis, in the development of its lender, property and mortgage purchase and master servicing documentation.
In addition to his law practice, from 1998 and its initial public offering, Bob served as an independent Trustee of CentraCore Properties Trust, a NYSE-listed real estate investment trust. Bob also served as the Audit Committee Financial Expert, Chairman of the Audit and Corporate Governance Committees, a member of the Compensation, Independent and Investment Committees and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2002 through January 2007 when CentraCore completed its merger with another NYSE-listed firm. Bob has also served as an executive vice president and general counsel for Precision Document Solutions Inc., a private firm headquartered in Dallas, since 1996. The company notably offers managed print services and health care software solutions to U.S. health care institutions across the country.
Robert R. Veach, Jr. was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Robert and Evelyn Veach and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. Bob is married to Lori Sue (Erickson) Veach and has resided in Dallas, Texas since law school. Bob's serious childhood asthma and allergies limited his sports involvement in his younger years but Bob went on to set his junior high school record for the mile. In his first year in high school, he was on the State best times list for the mile run and won the regional junior Olympics mile run. In high school, Bob was a three year letterman on the cross-country and track teams and was a member of two state champion track teams. Bob's two mile relay teams set school and state records.
Bob's community efforts date back to the late 1970s, when he served as a director of the North Texas affiliate of the American Diabetes Association in Dallas. Following in his parent's footsteps with respect to giving, he continues to serve as a Trustee of the Bob and Evelyn Veach Foundation. The nonprofit foundation notably benefits the Evelyn A. Veach Atrium Garden at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha and local Omaha students and families seeking to attend the Rose Theater productions.
Bob studied at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota before earning a Bachelor of Science in accounting at Arizona State University in 1972. At Arizona State, he was an officer of the Chi Triton Chapter of the Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity and was a member of the University Student Senate. Three years later, he graduated from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Texas with a Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1975. While active at SMU, Mr. Veach served as an editor of the Southwester Law Journal, as a moot court instructor and as an adjunct instructor of accounting in the SMU College of Business. Mr. Veach is an elected fellow of the Nebraska State Bar Foundation, and is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas, the Nebraska State Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association and the Dallas Bar Association. He has been admitted to practice law by the U.S. District Courts of Nebraska and Texas and the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals.
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