Robert A. Robertson has over 35 years of legal expertise in financial services, specializing in investment management, corporate and securities law, and corporate and fund governance. He is a lecturer-in-law at the USC Gould School of Law, where he teaches securities regulation, and mergers and acquisitions. Robertson is a retired partner in the financial services group of Dechert LLP, an international law firm.

Robertson served on the SEC staff for more than seven years, where his highest position was counselor to commissioner Isaac C. Hunt, Jr., advising the commissioner on enforcement and investment management matters. He was also an attorney in the Office of Counsel to the President during the George H.W. Bush Administration.

Robertson is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College (BA), Loyola Marymount University (MBA), and UCLA School of Law (JD).