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Roswell Perkins, a retired partner of Debevoise, remains active particularly in connection with Russian matters and the field of corporate governance. His career as a corporate lawyer has principally involved corporate financing and securities law (including investment funds), mergers, acquisitions, project financing, venture capital transactions, corporate governance issues and general corporate counseling. Building on an increasingly international practice, which since 1989 focused largely on Russia and other states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Mr. Perkins relocated to Moscow in December, 1997, in order to head up the Moscow office of the firm, as Resident Partner of Debevoise. He served in that capacity for three and one-half years, representing companies based in Russia, the US, UK, Europe, Scandinavia and the Far East.
Mr. Perkins has been responsible for numerous major Russian projects since 1989, including project financings for three Russian oil refineries under US Ex-Im Bank loan guarantee programs, two large investment funds targeted at Russia, joint ventures and extensive investment and general corporate activity. He is a recognized authority on corporate governance issues, both in the US and Russia, and has written major articles on the subject of corporate governance in Russia.
Mr. Perkins served as president of The American Law Institute from 1980 to 1993 and as Chairman of the Council from 1993 to the present time. He has been a member of the Council of the American Law Institute since 1969. He played a leading role in the development of the American Law Institute’s 12-year landmark project, completed in 1992, resulting in the two-volume publication entitled Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendations.
Mr. Perkins joined Debevoise in 1949 and became a partner in 1957. He received his A.B. cum laude from Harvard University in 1945 and his LL.B. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1949 where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review. He received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Bates College in 1988, a Special Merit Citation of the American Judicature Society in 1989, the Harvard Law School Association Award in 1994 and the Fifty-Year Award of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation in 2002. He has served in federal and state government on three occasions, including three and one-half years at the US Department of Health, Education & Welfare, where he served as Assistant Secretary of the Department by appointment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He served as Counsel to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York State in 1959.
Bar Admissions
New York
Education
Harvard University,
1947,
A.B.
Harvard Law School,
1949,
LL.B.
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