News

11 Mar 2010

Leading corporate and finance lawyer joins DLA Piper in New York and Los Angeles

Press Release

DLA Piper announced today that Roger W. Rosendahl has joined the firm’s corporate and finance practices as a partner in the New York and Los Angeles offices.

Coming to DLA Piper from the New York and Los Angeles offices of Kaye Scholer, LLP, Mr. Rosendahl’s practice focuses on corporate, finance and securities transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, project and structured finance and restructuring, energy, commercial and international arbitration and mediation as well as general corporate counseling.

Mr. Rosendahl’s mergers and acquisitions experience includes representation of acquirers, targets, investors and investment banks in public and private mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, acquisition financing, corporate restructuring and acquisitions out of bankruptcy in a wide variety of industries, including telecommunication, transportation, manufacturing, mining, textiles, asset management and commodities.

His global project finance and privatization experience includes representation of project sponsors, developers, commercial banks, investment banks, underwriters, sovereigns and borrowers in a wide variety of project financing and privatization transactions, including industrial development projects, infrastructure, natural resources, transportation, including ship finance and restructuring, telecommunications and energy. Mr. Rosendahl’s energy and power experience includes representation of independent power projects and developers and private equity funds as well as financial institutions, both domestic and foreign, and encompasses all major sources of power, including oil and gas, coal- and gas-fired facilities, transmission and renewable resources including wind, solar, geothermal and biofuels. He is experienced in the utilization of government agency, export credit agency and multilateral financing programs.

“Roger has an extraordinarily deep pool of contacts and client relationships in the corporate and finance arena, both in the US and abroad,” said Michael Meyer, Managing Partner of DLA Piper’s Los Angeles office. “He will be an invaluable resource to our US and multinational clients and we are thrilled to have him join our exceptional team in Los Angeles.”

“Roger’s wealth of experience in cross-border project and structured finance, and corporate and M&A matters significantly advances our strategy to expand our corporate and finance capabilities across the country and globally,” added David Young, DLA Piper’s head of Corporate and Finance in Southern California.

A frequent author and speaker, Mr. Rosendahl is a member of the Energy Law Committee, and has served on the Project Finance Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He was the founding chairman of the Asia-Pacific Law Committee of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice and a co-founder and initial Council Member of the United States of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association. He is a member of the International Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association and served on the Foreign Services Advisory Committee to the US Trade Representative, where he was a principal draftsman of the United States position on the Japan Foreign Lawyers Law.

Previously, Rosendahl was a partner with Kaye Scholer LLP. He received an A.B., cum laude, from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from Georgetown University.