REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Bob’s recent representative experience includes:
- Representing a leading timber investment firm in connection with the $1.6 billion acquisition of timberland formerly owned by Boise Cascade Corporation.
- Representing a consortium of buyers in connection with the $5 billion acquisition of forestland formerly owned by International Paper Company.
- Representing Allied Capital Corporation in connection with its investments in several portfolio companies.
- Representing Allied Capital Corporation in connection with numerous investments in senior debt, mezzanine finance, growth and other funds.
- Representing Siemens Corporation in connection with several acquisitions and dispositions including the recent sale of its hydrocarbons services business.
- Representing a technology-focused venture capital fund in connection with its investments in and financings of a number of portfolio companies.
- Representing a real estate-focused private equity fund in its acquisition of a resort in western North Carolina.
- Representing First Data Corporation in connection with several acquisitions, the formation of strategic alliances, the restructuring of strategic alliances and various other transactions.
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member, Business Law Section, American Bar Association
- Member, Business Law Section, New York State Bar Association
- Member, Business Law Section, State Bar of Georgia
RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Speaker, “Capital Market Transactions Involving Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs),” Presentation to Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. (January 11, 2005)