Rob advises clients on the full spectrum of matters affecting businesses, with particular expertise in M&A, listings, financings, investments, joint ventures, commercial contracts, regulatory, compliance, disputes and restructuring. Rob has advised clients at all stages of the business cycle from startups to publicly listed companies and leading global corporations. He has worked with clients across a range of industries and has collaborated with counsel in many jurisdictions across the globe. 

Before joining Reed Smith, Rob worked as the general counsel to a multinational oil and gas exploration and production company with listings of its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange and assets across Central Asia. Previously he worked in the corporate teams of two leading multinational law firms and spent time on secondment with a global investment bank during the period of uncertainty following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.