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Robert Welp
Work Department
Corporate Transactional & Private Equity - Northern Virginia
Position
Partner
Career
Consistently recognized for his outstanding work in merger and acquisition transactions, Robert Welp serves leading private equity firms and private companies in their transactions in the U.S. and throughout the world.
Robert is the head of private equity for the Americas at Hogan Lovells. He focuses his practice primarily on private equity-sponsored companies, funds, and their investments in energy, life sciences and health care, technology, government services, consumer, and other regulated sectors. Robert consistently advises funds and their portfolio companies regarding their acquisition and growth strategies. He also has deep experience in restructuring, recapitalization, and reorganization transactions throughout significant market inflections.
Memberships
Bar Associations – Texas, Washington, D.C. and Virginia
Education
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1992
B.A., Southern Methodist University, 1989
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Hogan Lovells US LLP has strong credentials in the venture fund space and is especially active on the investor side, representing a broad range of institutions, funds and family offices. The team also has good experience on the company side, and assisted Walmart on a joint venture with Ribbit Capital to launch a new fintech startup. The overall breadth of the firm’s offering is enhanced by its geographic reach, with a combination of teams in key US hubs such as Silicon Valley and Washington DC, as well as Europe and Asia. The private equity and funds group is led by Robert Welp out of Northern Virginia. Key partners include Mark Heimlich in Denver, Mahvesh Qureshi and Kevin Clayton in Washington DC, and Houston’s Andrew Strong who co-leads the firm’s emerging companies and investor group and has a strong track record on the life sciences and biotech front.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- International Trade > CFIUS
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)