Robert is a partner in the New York office of Troutman Sanders LLP and is a member of the Firm's Tax Practice Group. He advises clients on all aspects of corporate and partnership tax matters, with a particular emphasis on the tax aspects of private and public mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, private equity fund formation, financial products and electric and gas utility tax issues.

Representative Experience

Represented NTELOS Holdings Corp. in its tax-free spin-off of Lumos Networks Corp.

Represented ARRIS Group, Inc. in its acquisition of publicly-held BigBand Networks for a purchase price of $2.24 per share in cash.

Represented AGCO Corporation in its acquisition of GSI Holdings Corp. from affiliates of New York-based Centerbridge Partners, L.P. for $940 million in cash.

Represented Domtar Corporation it is acquisition of privately-held Attends Healthcare, Inc. from KPS Capital Partners, L.P. for $315 million.

Represented EarthLink, Inc. in its acquisition of LogicalSolutions.net, Inc., a privately-held business.

Represented EarthLink, Inc. in its acquisition of STS Telecom, a privately-held business.

Represented Massey Energy Co. in its acquisition of privately-held Cumberland Resources Corp. for $960 million in cash and stock.

Represented NTELOS Holdings Corp. in its acquisition of the FiberNet business from One Communications Corp. for cash consideration of approximately $170 million.

Represented utility in connection with the negotiation of a Purchase and Sale Agreement for a 50 MW wind generation facility, in combination with a Power Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of the electrical output of a companion wind generation facility and related agreements governing the ownership and operation of certain shared Common Facilities.

Represented investor in connection with the acquisition of the debt and equity associated with a 10 MW geothermal facility located in Nevada.

Represented issuers and underwriters in connection with the issuance of long-term hybrid debt.

Represented private equity fund sponsors in the formation of new funds.

Represented AbitibiBowater in connection with its issuance of $413 million in senior secured notes and its concurrent exchange offer for $293 million in senior unsecured notes.

Represented Chaparral Steel Company in its $4.3 billion sale to Gerdau Ameristeel.

Represented Bank of America in its sale of Marsico Capital Management to Thomas Marsico and its $3.3 billion purchase of U.S. Trust from The Charles Schwab Corporation.

Represented Avery Dennison in its $1.34 billion merger with Paxar.

Represented Morgans Hotel Group in connection with the creation of a joint venture with DLJ Merchant Bank, the financing to acquire, and the acquisition of, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Represented Sky Financial Group Inc. in its merger with Huntington Bancshares Incorporated.

Represented issuers and underwriters in connection with the issuances of debt, hybrid debt and equity securities.

Presentations and Speaking Engagements

Speaker, Significant Cases and Rulings, Meeting of the Energy Tax Council - October 2009

Speaker, Financing Incentives, Meeting of the Energy Tax Council - April 2009

Speaker, Financing Incentives, March 2009, Troutman Sanders Seminar on Energy Support in the Stimulus Bill - March 2009

Co-Presenter, Circular 230, The Higher Cost of "Putting It In Writing", Edison Electric Institute Semi-Annual Tax Committee Meeting - June 2005

Co-Presenter, An Analysis of the Long Term Capital Cases, Edison Electric Institute Semi-Annual Tax Committee Meeting - November 2004

Speaker, Tax Legislative Update for Owners of Nuclear Power Plants, Nuclear Decommissioning Fund Study Group - May 2003

Co-Presenter, Regulatory v. Tax Accounting - Distinctions, Differences and Common Ground, ABA Section of Taxation, Tax Accounting Committee -Fall 2002

Speaker, Tax Legislative Update for Owners of Nuclear Power Plants, Nuclear Decommissioning Fund Study Group - May 2002

Co-Presenter, Transaction Variations in the Market and Tax Planning, IMI Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Forum - November 2001

Speaker, The Ramifications of NRC License Extensions for Nuclear Power Plants, IMI Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Forum - November 2001

Speaker, Tax Planning Opportunities with Respect to Purchases of Nuclear Power Plants, Nuclear Decommissioning Fund Study Group - May 2001

Publications

Are Investment Unit Contract Adjustment Payments Ordinary Income? Journal of Taxation of Financial Products, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2006)

Co-Author, Musings on the 'Active Business Requirement,' Tax Analysts, Special Report Tax Notes, Vol. 98, No. 8, February 17, 2003

Continuing Tax Uncertainties Surround the Trading of C02 Emission Allowances, Journal of Taxation of Financial Products (Summer 2001)

Contributing author, Financial Products: Taxation, Regulation, and Design, Andrea S. Kramer, 2000 Supplement

1996 West Virginia Tax Developments, State and Local Tax Lawyer (Vol. 2, 1997)

Work Experience

Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP, 2008-present

Counsel, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, 2006-2008

Associate, Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, 2001-2006

Tax Senior Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 1996-2001