Robert T. Harper

Robert T. Harper

Robert T. Harper represents for profit and nonprofit entities in acquisition transactions, general business and corporate matters. In business affairs, he counsels corporations, boards and other entities in acquisitions, sales, financings and reorganizations.

Robert was an attorney with Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling when it joined Buchanan in 2006. There, he served on the firm's board of directors, was the vice president of administration, co-chairman of the firm's Corporate practice group and chairman of its Health Law practice group.

He also advises hospitals, health maintenance organizations, managed care entities and other providers in a variety of health care matters. He serves as co-chair of the firm's Health Care Section and is a member of its Advisory Committee.

Robert has been listed for 10 consecutive years in The Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law and Health Law. He is a frequent speaker for the American Bar Association, the National Institute on Mergers and Acquisitions and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on corporate law matters, including business acquisitions and takeovers and a variety of health care matters. Since 2006, he has been consistently selected to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® list.

Publications & Speeches

70 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys and Specialists Named Best Lawyers in America; Firm Ranks First in Several Categories
August 5, 2009

40 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys Selected to Pennsylvania Super Lawyers List
May 26, 2009

Twelve Buchanan Attorneys Selected to Corporate Counsel 2008 Super Lawyers List; Eight Selected to Corporate Counsel 2009 List
December 4, 2008

38 Pittsburgh Attorneys Noted in Pittsburgh Business Times for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2009 List
November 18, 2008

69 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys and Specialists Honored As Best Lawyers in America
September 26, 2008

Forty-Five Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys Selected as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers
May 28, 2008

Civic & Charitable

Duke University Libraries, past chair, Board of Advisors

Duke University Alumni Association, past president

Duke University, former trustee

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, chairman of the board of trustees

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, legal counsel and clerk of session

Affiliations

Allegheny County Bar Association

Pennsylvania Bar Association

Philadelphia County Bar Association

Business Law Section, Negotiated Acquisitions Committee, chairman of Task Force on Revisions to Model Stock Purchase Agreement, American Bar Association

Advisory board, Health Law Certificate Program, Board of Visitors, adjunct professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

American Law Institute