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Peter W. Rogers
Peter W. Rogers
Senior Associate — Tax
E: progers@velaw.com T: +1.214.220.7980
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Senior Associate — Tax

Peter W. Rogers

Peter W. Rogers
Dallas
T: +1.214.220.7980
F: +1.214.999.7980

Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201

E: progers@velaw.com
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Peter W. Rogers

Peter represents clients in connection with the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and other divestitures, reorganizations, joint ventures, securities offerings and bank financings. He has advised on matters across a broad range of industries, including media and entertainment, consumer products, technology, financial services and telecommunications.

Experience Highlights

  • Sunpro Solar, a residential solar company, in its $865 million sale to ADT

  • Disney in its $85 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox

  • Ashland in its tax-free spin-off of Valvoline

  • British American Tobacco in its $97 billion merger with Reynolds, including in its $17.25 billion notes offering (the largest-ever European notes offering)

  • IBM in acquisitions and dispositions of businesses throughout the world

  • Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan in their capacity as administrative agents and underwriters for credit facilities and securities offerings

  • J.D. Power in its sale to Thoma Bravo

  • Scientific Games in the carve-out IPO of SciPlay utilizing an Up-C structure

  • European Investment Bank as the issuer in notes offerings

  • DiaSorin in its acquisition of Luminex

  • Cable One in its acquisitions of Fidelity Communications and Hargray Communications

  • Lindsay Goldberg and its portfolio companies in various transactions

Credentials

  • Northwestern University School of Law, J.D. magna cum laude, 2014 (Order of the Coif; Online Executive Editor, Northwestern University Law Review)
  • Babson College, M.S., Accounting summa cum laude, 2008
  • Babson College, B.S., Business Administration summa cum laude, 2008
  • Senior Associate – Assurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 2008 – 2011
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Tax Law (Dallas), 2023
  • Recipient of the 2009 Elijah Watt Sells Award for scoring among the top 15 of 93,000 examinees on the Uniform CPA Examination
  • Member: Tax Section, New York State Bar Association
  • Not admitted in Texas
  • New York
  • New Jersey
  • Who Gets the Jewels when a Law Firm Dissolves? The Unfinished Business Doctrine and Hourly Matters, 108 Nw. U. L. Rev. 311 (2014) (cited in In re Howrey LLP (Bankr. N.D. Cal., 2014))

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August 18, 2022
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