Robert S. Winner

Rob’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, venture capital, securities offerings, restructurings and workouts, and general commercial transactions. Rob has more than 10 years of transactional experience working with both startups and Fortune 500 companies. Rob has spent an increasing amount of time representing energy and clean technologies companies and leads the firm’s new Energy and Clean Technologies group. His practice has also become more international in scope with the consummation of several cross-border transactions.

Below is a list of some of the transactions Rob has worked on:

• Representing a startup waste to fuels concern in connection with its securities offering and commercial contracts.
• Representing a bridge loan fund in connection with its securities offering and bridge loans.
• Representing the management team and holders of oil and gas interests in connection with an exchange offer of interests and related secured loan packages.
• Representing the venture capital arm of a Fortune 500 telecommunications company in connection with a series of preferred stock and debt investments in various software and hardware companies.
• Representing an oil and gas development company in connection with the sale of properties in west Texas and New Mexico.
• Representing a Fortune 500 company in connection with the sale and outsourcing of its U.S. and Mexican food service operations to a global food services contractor.
• Representing a biofuels company in connection with construction financing and its capital raising efforts.
• Representing a private equity firm in connection with the acquisition of an eco-friendly furniture company.
• Representing a transportation logistics company in connection with the sale of its proprietary software and related intellectual property to a global logistics company.
• Representing a proprietary trading firm in connection with the reorganization and offering of units to key employees.
• Representing a startup social networking company in connection with its formation and capital raising efforts.
• Representing a U.S. subsidiary of a global bank in connection with a syndicated secured loan to a publicly held international company and its U.S. subsidiaries.
• Representing a U.S. based home products company in connection with the acquisition of assets and related intellectual property out of bankruptcy court from a Canadian based company.
• Representing a web-based healthcare content provider in connection with a series of bridge loans and the subsequent sale of preferred stock and conversion of bridge loans.
• Representing the management team of a national technology consulting and leasing company in connection with an ESOP redemption of its majority shareholder.
• Representing the majority owner of a leading beverage retailer in connection with the sale and recapitalization of the company.