Practice Expertise

  • Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
  • Asia Pacific
  • Europe
  • Corporate

Areas of Practice

  • Asia Pacific
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
  • Europe
  • Fund Finance
  • Health Care
  • Health Care and Life Sciences
  • Health Care Transactions and Corporate ...
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • North America
  • Private Equity
  • Real Estate Life Sciences and Health Care
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Profile

Roger advises a variety of clients, including private equity and venture capital funds, companies and other interested parties on their acquisition, investment and disposition strategies.

Roger specializes in sophisticated, cross-border transactions across a number of industries, including healthcare/pharma, technology, manufacturing, luxury consumer products, film and television and real estate. He also guides boards of directors, special committees and investors on growth strategy, special situations, restructurings and other corporate governance issues. Roger is an adjunct corporate drafting professor at Brooklyn Law School and serves on the Alumni Board. He is also the President of the Dartmouth College Class of 1998. 

Representative Experience

  • Represented Perseus Telecom Limited in its sale to GTT Communications, Inc.
  • Represented MD Anderson Cancer Centers (MDACC) in multiple joint ventures with private equity, venture capital and strategic partners
  • Represented MDACC and the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (BOR) in a joint venture with Deerfield Management to advance autophagy-targeted therapeutics for cancer treatment
  • Represented MDACC and the BOR in a joint venture with Golden Meditech Holdings Limited (SEHK/TWSE) focusing on T-reg cellular therapies
  • Represented MDACC and the BOR in a joint venture with Berkeley Lights, Inc. to develop scalable manufacturing solutions for cancer treatments, including CAR-T and T-cell receptor therapies
  • HIG Whitehorse in multiple confidential transactions
  • Stripe International in its acquisition and disposition of its investment in Thom Browne
  • Represented Irmat Pharmacy and Park Irmat Drug Corp. in various corporate and real estate transactions
  • Brightwork Brand Holdings in its acquisition of Ghurka

Education
BA, Dartmouth College, 1998

Areas of Practice

  • Asia Pacific
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
  • Europe
  • Fund Finance
  • Health Care
  • Health Care and Life Sciences
  • Health Care Transactions and Corporate Governance
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • North America
  • Private Equity
  • Real Estate Life Sciences and Health Care

Professional Career



Articles

  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law 2016: Top Lawyers on Trends and Key Strategies for the Upcoming Year, Thompson Reuters/Aspatore
  • Navigating Cross-Border Real Estate Matters: Leading Lawyers on Guiding Real Estate Investors through Legal, Corporate, and Regulatory Requirements in US and Foreign Jurisdictions, Thompson Reuters/Aspatore 
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law 2014: Top Lawyers on Trends and Key Strategies for the Upcoming Year, Thompson Reuters/Aspatore
  • The Culture of Counterparties, Deal Lawyers
  • 2020 Retail Industry Year in Review

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