John A. Rogers is a partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton LLP, resident in the New York office. Rogers engages in a broad range of private equity, venture capital and hedge fund transactional matters, including acquisitions and divestitures, investments, joint ventures, financings, restructurings and CLOs.
He also serves as a primary corporate legal adviser to middle market companies. Acting as an outsourced general counsel or supplementing in-house capabilities, he handles a wide range of strategic and commercial legal matters, such as commercial agreements (including license agreements), resolution of commercial disputes and a wide variety of employment and compensation matters.
Rogers also has significant experience in several other corporate areas, such as fund formations, real estate joint ventures and business divorces.
Prior to joining Pepper, he was a partner at Herrick, Feinstein LLP in New York where he led their private equity efforts. He also helped co-found a premier Family Office Practice at Herrick and is an active participant in the family office community.
He began his legal career at Shearman & Sterling LLP as a member of their capital markets group, focusing on securities offerings and, subsequently, as a member of their M&A group. He also worked at Morrison & Foerster LLP, focusing on representation of venture capital firms and companies in the technology, media, life sciences and entertainment industries.
He received his BA cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany ad his JD from St John’s University School of Law.