Stites & Harbison, PLLC

         
". . . extraordinarily good . . . considered one of the best lawyers in the state."

- ChambersUSA 2008

Bill Haden has been practicing law for more than 30 years handling real estate and finance matters. He is the Chair of the firm's Real Estate and Finance Practice Group for the firm's Kentucky and Indiana offices. He brings significant bond counsel experience to help clients dealing with letter of credit, real estate and commercial leasing issues. He is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers (2004-2010), in The Best Lawyers in America^® (2006-2010) and Kentucky Super Lawyers (2009-10).

Recent Assignments

• Represented a lender in a $100,000,000 credit facility for a leading private university in the southeast
• Represented a lender in a $78,000,000 air rights mortgage loan to finance the construction of a luxury apartment building over a commercial retail center in the Southeast
• Led a team of professionals to acquire and close 53 parcels in less than three months to help an attempt by the Commonwealth of Kentucky to attract a major automobile manufacturer
• Represented the letter of credit issuer in a $292 million bond financing to provide credit enhancement for a Kentucky Associations of Counties venture
• Counseled a private joint venture in various bond financings in a University of Louisville student housing project
• Assisted the largest church in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in its $55 million loan to finance a $90 million construction project
• Represented a publicly traded financial institution in a multi-million dollar Subordinated Debenture transaction
• Represented banking institution in multiple bank eligible bond purchase transactions
• Represented institutional equity investor and lender in multi-use new market tax credit transaction

Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications

• 2009 supplement to the Kentucky portion of State by State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases, published by Aspen Publishers
• "Conflicts of Interest-Problems When Representing Parties in a Friendly Lease," National Business Institute, June 2004
• "Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Real Estate Leases," National Business Institute, June 2004

Before Stites & Harbison

Right out of law school, Mr. Haden served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Roy Vance of the Kentucky Supreme Court. For a time, he was a partner in a boutique law firm in tax-exempt financings and banking law.

More than Stites & Harbison

Bill has served as president of Harmony Landing Country Club and currently serves as a member of its Board of Directors, an Elder to Westport Road Church of Christ, on the board of St. Matthews Little League, and as a volunteer recorder for Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic ("RFB&D"), a national organization for the visually impaired. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies.

Besides Stites & Harbison

A former college tennis player, he still works at it, playing USTA-rated doubles (having acknowledged that singles is for guys with two good knees). He's also an avid, but very unaccomplished, weekend golfer.