Mr. Haygood is a member of our Corporate Section. He practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, securities law, probate, estate planning and trust law.

Mr. Haygood has represented clients in a variety of corporate finance and planning matters, including representing numerous financial institutions in connection with acquisition transactions involving more than $1 billion in assets; acting as lead outside counsel in connection with the corporate and securities aspects of the reorganization of a large publicly-held enterprise in what was the largest financial reorganization up to that time of a Louisiana-based company; acting as lead outside counsel in connection with the financial and corporate restructuring of a Louisiana-based, publicly-traded entity with assets in excess of $500 million; representation of an international oil and gas service company in connection with the acquisition of assets located on three different continents and totaling in excess of $40 million; and structuring estate plans for individuals having an estimated combined net worth in excess of $150 million.

Mr. Haygood graduated from Louisiana State University in 1964 and received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1967. After graduating from law school, he was law clerk to the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He later served as Senior Legislative Assistant and Counsel to U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston.

Long active in the Louisiana State Bar Association, Mr. Haygood has held several association offices, including Chairman of the Association’s Section on Corporation and Business Law. In addition, he has served on the Association’s Board of Governors and on the Louisiana Bar Admissions Committee, chairing for many years the subcommittee that prepares and administers the Louisiana corporation law portion of the Louisiana Bar Examination. Mr. Haygood also served as the first Chairman of the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Corporate Laws Committee, which monitors the Louisiana Business Corporation Law and makes recommendations to the Louisiana Legislature with respect to changes in the Louisiana Business Corporation Law. He retired as Chairman in 1998 after serving for more than ten years as Chairman of the Committee and its predecessors. Mr. Haygood also served for ten years on the Planning Committee of the Tulane Corporate Law Institute. He is a former member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America, in corporate law, since 1983 when that publication premiered.

Mr. Haygood has also played an active role in the civic affairs of the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana, having served as President of the Council for a Better Louisiana (a statewide organization devoted to improving the economy, the political structure, and other aspects of life in the State of Louisiana), as President of the New Orleans Bureau of Governmental Research (a private, non-profit, independent research organization dedicated to informed public policy making and the effective use of public resources for the improvement of government in the greater New Orleans metropolitan area), and as an active board member of a number of philanthropic organizations. In 1991 he chaired the New Orleans Conference on North American Free Trade. Mr. Haygood also is a former member of the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University.