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Roger Klein brings more than forty years of experience advising multinational corporate and commercial real estate clients. Over the course of his career, he served as counsel on acquisitions totaling billions of dollars, including transactions involving major defense contractors, a luxury hotel, professional sports facilities, luxury cruise ships and national publications.

Throughout his corporate practice, Mr. Klein advised U.S. and international clients on a wide range of matters, including debt and equity financing, teaming arrangements, employment contracts and distribution agreements. He provided FCPA and ethics counseling to both U.S. and foreign companies and represented professional corporations and professional limited liability partnerships in the legal, medical, architectural and engineering professions. He also served for more than ten years as general counsel to a major U.S.-based multinational law firm, where he was directly involved in the establishment of offices in Europe and Asia.

In his real estate practice, Mr. Klein represented landlords and tenants in lease negotiations covering more than one million square feet of office space and counseled owners in the acquisition and mixed-use development of substantial commercial properties. He also advised commercial building owners on sales and purchases of commercial real estate, financing arrangements, building management and services agreements, construction and brokerage agreements and regulatory matters involving environmental, ADA, zoning and real estate tax issues.

Mr. Klein maintained a robust international business practice, representing U.S. companies expanding abroad and foreign businesses investing in the United States. His work included representing a European cruise line in UK bank financing for the construction of cruise ships, a Japanese manufacturer in the acquisition of a U.S. distribution company and a Korean electronics company in the acquisition of a U.S.-based manufacturing facility. His U.S.-based cross-border matters included sales of commercial real estate to Israeli and Italian investor groups and advising multinational companies on strategic expansions and divestitures.

In addition to his client work, Mr. Klein served as Vice Chair of the Board on Professional Responsibility for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and as Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Trade and Professional Organizations of the American Bar Association. He is the author of Political Expenditures, 231-2nd Tax Management Portfolio, served on the adjunct faculty of the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America and lectured on commercial lease negotiation through the D.C. Bar Continuing Education Program. His pro bono work included service as special counsel to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.