Law360, New York (January 6, 2015, 3:38 PM EST) -- Richard Ross is a partner with Perkins Coie LLP, involved in the firm's corporate and securities practice areas, with experience in complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financings and emerging company and venture capital transactions. He has represented companies, private equity funds and investment banks in public and private mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, takeovers (negotiated and contested), leveraged buyouts, financings (debt, equity and patent-backed), spinoffs, strategic investments and joint ventures in a wide variety of U.S. and cross-border transactions. He also counsels clients on a broad range of corporate, securities and business-related matters, including directors' duties and responsibilities and other aspects of corporate governance and disclosure issues....