Roger A. Lane

About Roger A. Lane

Roger A. Lane is a partner in the Litigation Department of Holland & Knight LLP, resident in the Boston office. Mr. Lane focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, with particular experience in corporate law disputes, stockholder and federal securities litigation, and related risk management advice. Mr. Lane represents individuals and business enterprises, including early-stage and mature corporations (both public and private), venture capital and other private equity firms, investment banks and underwriters, and their directors, officers, independent board committees and partners. He handles litigation relating to the federal securities laws, corporate mergers and acquisitions, corporate debt and equity financings, executive compensation, and other matters of corporate management and governance; trust administration; bankruptcy and creditors’ rights; antitrust; unfair competition and other business torts, in state and federal courts across the country. Mr. Lane also handles internal corporate investigations and counsels clients on how to mitigate litigation risk in connection with significant corporate and commercial transactions, including corporate-law fiduciary duty and federal securities law compliance. His experience in this area has often enabled his clients to avoid litigation or bring litigation to a quick and favorable result. Mr. Lane joined Holland & Knight in May 2020. Before that, he was a partner and chairman of the Litigation Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP; a shareholder at Greenburg Traurig LLP; a partner at Pepper Hamilton LLP; and a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP. Mr. Lane is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A, with high honors and highest distinction, 1984) and Harvard Law School (J.D, cum laude, 1987). After law school, he clerked for one year for the Honorable John R. Gibson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Specialties: Complex corporate and commercial litigation and risk management advice, including: Securities and Shareholder Litigation Corporate Governance and Risk Management Corporate Investigations Directors and Officers (D&O) Liability Insurance Government Investigations Commercial Litigation Antitrust

Experience

1. Partner

   Holland & Knight LLP

   May 2020 — Present · Boston, MA, US

Education

• Harvard Law School

  J.D., Law

  1984 — 1987

• University of Michigan

  A.B., Philosophy, Creative Writing and Comparative Literature

  1980 — 1984