Cliff Roe is the former Managing Partner of Dinsmore and Shohl LLP and the former Chairman of the Board of Directors, serving in those positions from 1997 to 2008. He is an honors graduate of Notre Dame Law School, where he was Note Editor of the Law Review. He graduated from Xavier University with a B.S. in English. He had previously served as Chairman of the Corporate Department for 13 years. Since the commencement of his career with the firm in 1967, Cliff has focused his practice on corporate and securities, and health care and banking matters. He has represented clients throughout the country in major mergers and acquisitions, corporate financings, health care transactions and numerous banking matters. Cliff served as the outside General Counsel of a national health care system for over 15 years. He is the Author of The Ohio Corporation: Legal Aspects of Organization and Operation (2010 - The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.); Ohio Corporations Practice Guide: Ohio Corporations (May 1999 - West Group). Cliff has been included in The Best Lawyers in America since 1989, been named one of the top 100 Ohio Super Lawyers by Law & Politics Media; and recognized in America's Leading Business Lawyers for Corporate/M&A by Chambers USA. Memberships & Affiliations · Ohio State Bar Association, Corporation Law Committee · Cincinnati Bar Association, Founding Chairman Corporation and Securities Law Committee · Legatus, Cincinnati Chapter, President 2005-2006 · Leadership Cincinnati, Class IV · Cincinnati United Way, Board Member 1978-1983; Allocations Division Board Member 1974-1978; Neighborhood Services Allocations Committee 1972-1978; Chairman 1976-1978; New Agency Admissions Committee Chairman 1978-1983 · General Counsel, National Franciscan Health Care System 1986-2002 · St. Francis-St. George Hospital, Board Member 1981-1986, Chairman of Board 1985-1986 · Franciscan Health System of Cincinnati, Board Member 1986-1989 Distinctions · Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell · Listed in The Best Lawyers In America® since 1989 · Named "Lawyer of the Year" in Cincinnati for Securities/Capital Markets by The Best Lawyers in America®, 2011 · Selected by Law & Politics as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Ohio and one of the Top 50 Lawyers in Cincinnati when selection started in 2004 · Selected for the Ohio Super Lawyers® List since 2004 · Recognized in Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers for Corporate/M&A since 2004 · Named in Pritchard's The Legal 500 United States-Volume I Corporate and Finance under Mergers and Acquisitions, 2007 · Note Editor, Notre Dame Law Review Experience Stock Purchase
L'Har, Inc.
$12,000,000 stock purchase of conveyor manufacturer Reorganization of Corporation
Cracker Barrel
Reorganization of $1 billion restaurant company Stock-for-Stock Tax Free Merger
OHSL Financial Corporation
$60,000,000 stock-for-stock tax free merger for $800 million publicly-held savings and loan holding company Stock Sale for Cash
The Buschman Company Merger
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
Multi-billion dollar merger involving one of the nation's largest insurance carriers Asset Purchase
The Procter & Gamble Company
Purchase of assets of $300 million fragrance company Asset Purchase
The Procter & Gamble Company
Purchase of assets by Fortune 100 consumer products company Anonymous Plaintiff v. Community Medical Center
Anonymous Church
Dispute between Church and community activists over control of hospital Asset Sale
Huffy Corporation
$100,000,000 asset sale for $600 million publicly-held manufacturer of bicycles and hardware products and related services |