Rob Spicer is a partner in the Business Section of Williams Mullen and chair of the firm's Corporate Finance & Securities Law Practice Team.  He has extensive experience in corporate finance and securities law matters, including public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, private placements, commercial paper programs and venture capital financing.  He provides advice to clients on sophisticated and complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, proxy contests, dispositions of subsidiaries or other assets, holding company formations and related matters.  He also provides securities law advice on filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, insider trading, corporate governance, issuer repurchase programs, stock exchange listing requirements, anti-takeover defenses and fiduciary duties.

Education
Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M. – 1996
University of Richmond School of Law, J.D. – 1984
Tulane University, B.A. – 1978

Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association, Business Law Section
Richmond Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education and Mentor Program Committees, Past Chairman
Virginia Bar Association, Business Law Section
Virginia State Bar

Awards and Honors
Listed in "Legal Elite," Virginia Business magazine
Listed in Virginia Super Lawyers magazine - Securities & Corporate Finance

Publications
"Annexation in Virginia:  The 1979 Amendments Usher in a New Era in City-County Relations," 17 Univ. of Rich. L. Rev. 819 (1984)

Representations

• Representation of a New York Stock Exchange company in a $650 million business combination transaction. Services included preparing definitive proxy materials for a special meeting of shareholders, representing the company in a public offering of approximately $70 million of common stock, designing a new issue of preferred stock and negotiating a revolving credit facility.
• Counsel to New York Stock Exchange company in connection with private placement of $100 million of senior notes to institutional investors.
• Counsel to Nasdaq National Market company in connection with $500 million shelf registration of common stock, preferred stock and debt.
• Counsel to issuers and underwriters in various public offerings, including IPOs.
• Representation of stockholders in connection with proxy contest for control of Nasdaq company.
• Counsel to New York Stock Exchange company in connection with $300 million secondary offering.