Chairman, MARTA
Robert Ashe is an Associate with Bondurant Mixson and Elmore LLP. Ashe represents both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts. He focuses on issues involving politics, governments and governmental authorities throughout Georgia, particularly the City of Atlanta, metro Atlanta governments and the Georgia General Assembly. In 2010, he was appointed by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and the Atlanta City Council to serve on the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) and was elected by his colleagues to serve as the Chairman of the Board for 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Government and political experience includes negotiating transfers of government assets worth tens of millions of dollars, supervising teams of governmental finance experts and attorneys in the evaluation, negotiation and implementation of issue and planning and executing a multi-year, public communications and advocacy campaign resulting in a successful multi-billion dollar sales tax referendum.
Representative Work includes succesfully defended a $250 million food and beverage concessions contract award through an administrative protest, an administrative appeal, and multiple rounds of litigation. He also won an extraordinary motion for a new trial on behalf of a bank seeking to enforce a guaranty.