Robert Fisher > O'Melveny & Myers LLP > Silicon Valley, United States > Lawyer Profile
O'Melveny & Myers LLP Offices

2765 SAND HILL ROAD
MENLO PARK, CA 94025-7019
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Robert Fisher

Work Department
Tax
Position
Partner
Career
Bob Fisher focuses his practice on the tax aspects of corporate transactions. He has extensive experience advising, structuring, and implementing tax sensitive acquisitions and dispositions, including taxable and tax-free mergers and stock and asset transactions. He regularly works with some of the world’s most innovative public and private technology companies on domestic and cross-border deals. With over 20 years of experience, Bob has provided strategic, cutting edge tax advice on deals ranging from early stage venture capital financings to multi-billion dollar cross-border transactions.
Education
- University of California at Los Angeles, J.D., 1998: Order of the Coif
- Brigham Young University, B.S., 1995: magna cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Leveraging both its bicoastal presence and depth of expertise within California, O’Melveny & Myers LLP handles a diverse cross-section of work for an equally varied clientele. Led from Newport by executive compensation and benefits specialist Jeffrey Walbridge , the team is routinely engaged by blue-chip entities from the worlds of tech, consumer goods, retail, and financial services. In the Century City office, Robert Blashek is equally fluent in middle-market private equity and entertainment matters, advising some of the biggest names in the industry on acquisitions, financings, and restructurings. The Los Angeles-based Luc Moritz is highly regarded for his capabilities in cross-border investments and financings, especially those related to inbound investments from Asia. Silicon Valley-based Robert Fisher works with public and private tech companies at every stage, ranging from venture capital financings to big-ticket cross-border deals. In New York, Alexander Roberts works with a broad spectrum of clients on structuring and financing matters in the energy sector, including wind, solar, and other clean energy projects and assets. Also in New York, Alexander Anderson is a key port of call for various banks, investment funds, and high-profile corporations, while Arthur Hazlitt is recommended for his capabilities in energy transaction tax structuring.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Industry focus > Healthcare: health insurers
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Industry focus > Transport: aviation and air travel - litigation and regulation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Industry focus > Healthcare: life sciences
- International Trade > International trade
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: electric power
- Finance > Project finance