Christopher Rogers advises businesses, sponsors, investors, and entrepreneurs on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising transactions, investment fund formations, and other strategic business transactions.

As a Partner in Buchalter's Corporate Practice Group, Christopher represents clients in acquisitions and dispositions, private securities offerings, investment fund formations, joint ventures, recapitalizations, and cross-border transactions. He also advises founders, boards of directors, management teams, and investors on governance, financing, and strategic growth matters.

Christopher is President Emeritus of the Arizona Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), one of the nation's leading organizations focused on middle-market mergers and acquisitions. He is a past Chair of both the Securities Regulation and Business Law Sections of the State Bar of Arizona.

Before entering private practice, Christopher served as a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives, advising a member of the House International Relations Committee on trade, defense, and business matters. He later worked at CNN in Washington, D.C., where he contributed to the production of Crossfire, the nationally recognized political debate program.

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Bar Admissions
Arizona

New York

New Jersey

Education
Washington College of Law at American University, J.D.

Muhlenberg College, B.A., International Studies: Global Trade and International Business

Significant Accomplishments

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Dispositions

Represent Buyers and Sellers in negotiating and completing purchases and sales of operating companies, including negotiating principal purchase agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, rollover transactions, employment agreements, loan and other financial documents, and conducting due diligence. Recent transactions include:

• Buyer's counsel in acquisition of $100 million hydro-technology and services company
• Buyer's counsel in roll-up acquisitions of medical technology companies
• Buyer's counsel in acquisition of a global leader in frequency control devices on behalf of Japanese public company
• Seller's counsel in a $40 million sale of healthcare company
• Seller's counsel in a $100 million sale of government contractor
• Seller's counsel to an entertainment company
• Seller's counsel in sales of several Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) firms

Investment Fund Formation and Compliance

Represent sponsors in structuring and marketing private investment funds and affiliate entities, including, regulatory compliance and drafting governing documents and offering materials. Recent funds include:

• $100 million real estate fund focused on opportunistic industrial acquisitions;
• $100 million private lending and leverage-backed equity investment fund
• $100 million real estate fund pursuing a conversion and adaptive reuse strategy
• $50 million single family rental fund
• Various Qualified Opportunity Funds and other real estate funds ranging from $5m to more than $100 million pursuing various strategies from office, retail and restaurant development, to multi-family development, to establishing novel technology backed "carless" residential communities

Securities and Securities Offerings

Represent operating companies, investment funds, and early stage venture companies in connection with issuers in private and public securities transactions involving equity, debt, and convertible instruments, including drafting offering materials and providing SEC-regulatory compliance counsel. Recent engagements include:

• Issuer's counsel in connection with various real estate fund and syndication offerings ranging from less than $5m to more than $150 million
• Issuer's counsel in go-public transaction on Toronto Stock Exchange Venture Exchange for consumer product company
• Issuer's counsel in various venture investments, including Seed, Series A, Series B, etc.
• Issuer's counsel to energy technology company in $10 million private placement
• Issuer's counsel emerging cannabis company in $30 million offering of equity and debt, domestically and in Canada

Corporate

Provide corporate advice to operating companies, Boards of Directors, and executives on matters encompassing joint venture agreements, strategic acquisitions and dispositions, talent acquisition and retention, shareholder relations, and ordinary course business issues and agreements.


Professional Activities and Experience

• The Best Lawyers in America©, Corporate Law (2023 - 2025)
• Phoenix magazine, "Top Lawyer," Securities Law (2022)
• Southwest Super Lawyers Rising Stars®, Securities and Corporate Finance (2015 - 2018)

Let's Make A Deal

Potential Regulatory Relief for Sponsors Raising Equity for Qualified Opportunity Funds

Capital Raising Developments for Qualified Opportunity Funds

The Securities Laws Landscape for OZ Funds and their Managers

Introduction of Regulation Crowdfunding

Planning for a Successful Business Partnership

The Art of the Deal: Know Your (Capital) Market

For Investment Capital, Head to Canada

Qualified Opportunity Zones: Newly Released Guidance by Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

New Federal Crowdfunding Rules

Looking Far North to Raise Growth Capital

Launching a QOZB: How to Establish and Structure a Qualified Opportunity Zone Business for Best Results and How to Best Navigate Requirements

Christopher Rogers, Presenter at the Midwestern University Alumni Webinar

Christopher Rogers, Presenter at the State Bar of Arizona, December 2020

Christopher Rogers, Moderator at the Association for Corporate Growth

Christopher Rogers, Presenter at the State Bar of Arizona, February 2020

Christopher Rogers, Co-Presenter at the Surety Association of Arizona

Christopher Rogers, Presenter at Bell Bank

Christopher Rogers, Presenter at Pinal County

Christopher Rogers, Panelist at the Opportunity Zone Expo

Christopher Rogers, Panelist at the Yuma County Seminar

Christopher Rogers, Keynote Speaker at the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix

Christopher Rogers, Panelist at the Law Firm Alliance

Christopher Rogers, Panelist at Jennings, Strouss & Salmon

Christopher Rogers, Speaker at the State Bar of Arizona Business Law Section

Christopher Rogers, Presenter at the State Bar of Arizona Convention

Christopher Rogers, Speaker at the State Bar of Arizona Annual Convention

Christopher Rogers, Speaker at the TMX Finance Series