Practice Areas
Corporate
Merger Notification and Clearance
Admissions
New York
Education
Columbia Law School - J.D.
Georgetown University - M.A., magna cum laude
Georgetown University - B.S., magna cum laude
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Profile
Richard Rowe is a special counsel in the Corporate Group in Cadwalader’s New York office. His experience includes public and private transactions, mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, spinoffs, and shareholder activism and defense. In addition to his corporate work, Rich has a particular focus advising clients in connection with national security reviews of cross-border investments by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
Prior to joining Cadwalader, Rich served as Deputy Director in the Office of Investment Security with the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2020 through 2023. Before joining the Treasury, he was a corporate associate at a leading mergers and acquisitions law firm, where he handled complex public and private transactions, including mergers, asset and equity sales, securities offerings, joint ventures, spinoffs, and other matters. Prior to his legal career, Rich served as a captain in the U.S. Army, where he held various leadership roles, including as an infantry platoon leader and troop executive officer.
Rich earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and the treasurer of the Columbia Law Review. He earned his M.A. and B.S., magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Experience
Representative Experience*
- Transform Holdco LLC in its asset sale of its DieHard brand to Advance Auto Parts, Inc. for $200 million in cash.
- Univar Inc. in its $1 billion cash and stock acquisition of Nexeo Solutions, Inc. and subsequent sale of the plastics business of Nexeo Solutions to an affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners, LLC for $640 million.
- Designer Brands Inc. (f/k/a DSW Inc.) in its $375 million cash acquisition of intellectual property and other assets constituting the Vince Camuto and related brands and establishment of a joint venture and licensing arrangement with its co-acquirer, Authentic Brands Group.
- Ancora Holdings in its investment in Norfolk Southern Corporation and successful effort to elect three directors to the company’s board.
- Santander Group in its equity sale of its Puerto Rico banking business to First BanCorp. for $1.1 billion in cash.
- A privately held international retail construction service business in its $75 million sale of a minority equity stake to a private equity investor.
- Constellium in its acquisition, for $100 million in cash and $80 million in assumed debt, of UACJ Corporation’s 49% interest in their mutual auto body sheet joint venture.
- Constellium in its movement of its corporate seat from the Netherlands to France and half a dozen offerings of equity and euro and dollar denominated debt totaling, in the aggregate, more than $2 billion and accompanying tender offers and redemptions of outstanding securities.
- Politan Capital Management in its successful effort to elect two new directors to Masimo Corporation’s board of directors.
- CardConnect Corp. in its $750 million acquisition by First Data Corporation through a cash tender offer.
- United Technologies Corporation in its equity sale of the Taylor Company, including foreign subsidiaries, to Middleby Corporation for $1 billion in cash.
- CBS Corporation in its equity sale of its CBS Radio business in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction to Entercom Communications Corporations, and related financing and licensing transactions.
- Presidio, Inc. in its initial public offering that raised $233 million.
- Airgas, Inc. in its merger with and into an affiliate of l’Air Liquide, S.A., a transaction valued at $13 billion.
- CI Capital Partners LLC in its raising of $750 million for a newly established private equity fund, including separate additional parallel funds and co-investment vehicles.
- CFIUS Matters: Led a team of case officers in conducting hundreds of confidential CFIUS reviews of cross-border transactions, including negotiating and implementing dozens of agreements and other mitigation measures to address national security risks arising from these transactions.
*Certain representations occurred prior to Rich's association with Cadwalader.
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