Bob is a corporate lawyer focusing on mergers and acquisitions and private investment transactions, both domestically and internationally.
He handles M&A transactions and general corporate matters for both publicly traded and private corporate clients. These transactions include mergers, stock acquisitions and dispositions, asset acquisitions and dispositions, acquisitions and dispositions of divisions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and other similar transactions. Bob represents private investment funds in all aspects of their operations, including fund formation, capital raising, portfolio investments, regulatory matters, and exit transactions. He has worked with prominent clients on significant transactions in a number of industries, including manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, energy, timber, water and other natural resources, and financial services.
Bob currently serves on the firm’s Executive Committee, is the Co-Head of Global M&A and is also the Co-Head of the global Industrials sector.
- Represented a family-owned manufacturer of ball bearings in connection with its sale to a private equity firm.
- Represented a private equity firm in its carve-out acquisition of the instrumentation business of a publicly-traded UK company across 11 jurisdictions in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
- Represented India-based supplier of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products and services in its acquisition of a capsule manufacturing business from a subsidiary of Nestle Health Sciences.
- Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of a US-based manufacturer of specialty gas compression systems used in all stages of the hydrogen energy supply chain with operations in China, Japan, South Korea and Germany.
- Represented FTSE 250 manufacturer in connection with its acquisition of all of the outstanding stock of a US-based manufacturer of knobs, handles, spring-loaded pins and other components and all of the outstanding stock of its Costa Rican affiliate.
- Eversheds Sutherland Global M&A Conference, New York, New York, October 11, 2023
- Eversheds Sutherland Global M&A Conference, London, England, June 15, 2022
- Thomson Reuters International Mergers & Acquisitions Conference, London, England, November 20, 2018
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of mergers and acquisitions: middle-market (2015-2022)
- Member, Business Law Section, American Bar Association
- Member, Business Law Section, New York State Bar Association
- Member, Business Law Section, State Bar of Georgia
- Georgia
- New York
- B.S., with distinction, University of Virginia,
Beta Gamma Sigma
- J.D., University of Virginia School of Law,
Member, Virginia Tax Review
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