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AVanderbilt@CarellaByrne.com
ARTHUR T. VANDERBILT II joined Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein in 1982. Since 1978, Mr. Vanderbilt has specialized in public finance law. He has been listed in the "Red Book" of approved municipal bond attorneys in the United States for over twenty-five years. He has had broad experience in general obligation bond and revenue bond financings as Bond Counsel, underwriter's counsel, and trustee's counsel, and has been involved with billions of dollars of financings. In addition, Mr. Vanderbilt has represented many clients before the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, and is a registered Governmental Affairs Agent.
Mr. Vanderbilt graduated with an A.B. degree from Wesleyan University (magna cum laude) in 1972 and with a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1975.
After a judicial clerkship with the Hon. Herman D. Michels, Presiding Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, Mr. Vanderbilt served as Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey, and Counsel to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. Before joining Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart, & 0lstein, he served as Assistant Counsel to the Governor of New Jersey.
Mr. Vanderbilt is listed in Who's Who in America, and, as the author of many books and articles about the law, in Contemporary Authors. He won the American Bar Association’s Scribes Award in 1976 for the best book about the law published that year, and was inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame in 2001. Mr. Vanderbilt served as a member and chairman of a Supreme Court District Ethics Committee, and was a member of the Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics and a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Task Force on Attorney Disciplinary System. He has served as a member and president of the Board of Trustees of the Elizabeth, New Jersey Presbytery; the Summit, New Jersey Free Public Library; The Manley-Winser Foundation and Greenwood Gardens. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the New Jersey Bar Association, and the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He was named a fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2000.
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