Roswell Burchard Perkins, American Born: Boston, May 21, 1926
Lawyer ( law: practitioner & administration)
Corporate, general
International, private
Mergers and acquisitions
lawyer Recipient Special Merit Citation of America JudicatureSoc., 1989, Harvard Law School Association award, 1994.
Background
Perkins, Roswell Burchard was born on May 21, 1926 in Boston, Bachelor of Arts cum laude, Harvard University, 1945, Bachelor of Laws cum laude, 1949, Doctor of Laws (honorary), Bates College, 1988. Bar: Massachusetts 1949, New York 1949. Association Debevoise, Plimpton & McLean, New York City, 1949-1953.
Education
Partner Debevoise & Plimpton, and predecessor firms, New York City, 1957-1996, ofcounsel, head representative office, Moscow, 1997. Assistant secretary unites states department Health, Education amd Welfare, 1954-1956. Counsel to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, State of New York, 1959.
Assistant counsel special subcommittee Senate Commerce Committee to investigate organized crime in interstate commerce, 1950.
Chairman New York City Mayor"s Task Force on Transportation Reorganization, 1966. Member President"s Adviser.Panel on Personnel Interchange, 1968.
Chairman advising committee Medicare Administration Contracting Subcontracting Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-1974. Director Fiduciary Trust Company New York, 1963.
Trustee Bowery Savings Bank, 1975-1982.
Member legal commission to board directors New York Stock Exch., 1995.
Career
Worked at Debevoise & Plimpton (New York, New York) specializing in General Practice. Admitted to the bar, 1949, New York and Massachusetts. Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1948-1949.
Author: "The New Federal Conflict of Interest Law," 76 Harvard Law Review 1113, 1963.
"The ALI Corporate Governance Project in Midstream," 41 Business. Law 1195 (1986); "The Genesis and Goals of the ALI Corporate Governance Project," 8 Cardoza Law Review 661, 1987.
"Corporate Governance in The New Russia," International Financial Law Review, June 1995. Assistant Counsel, Special Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, 1951.
Assistant Secretary, United States.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1954-1956. Counsel to the Governor of the State of New York, 1959. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Chairman, Special Committee on: Federal Conflict of Interest Laws, 1958-1960.
New York State Constitutional Convention, 1966-1967).
New York State and American (Member, Section of Business Law) and International Bar Associations. American Law Institute (President, 1980-1993.
Chairman of Council, 1993). Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
Debevoise & Plimpton a preeminent international law firm, was founded in 1931 and today has over 370 lawyers with offices in New York, Washington, District of Columbia, Los Angeles, Paris, London and Budapest.
Member New York Lawyers Committee Civil Rights, 1970-1973. Member national executive committee, 1973-1980, co-chairman 1973-1975. Member advisory council Woodrow Wilson School Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1967-1969.
Board directors The Commonwealth Fund, 1974-1997, School American Ballet, 1974-1985, chairman board 1976-1980. Director, secretary New York Urban Coalition, 1967-1974. Trustee Pomfret School, 1961-1976.
The Brearley School, 1969-1975. Director Salzburg Seminar American Studies, 1970-1980. Member overseers visiting committee Kennedy School Government, Harvard University, 1971-1977, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1958-1964, 1971-1977, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2000-2005.
Member American Bar Association (commission on law and economy, 1975-1979, member house of deals 1980-1993), New York State Bar Association, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (chairman special committee on federal conflict of interest laws 1958-1960). Harvard Alumni Association (president 1970-1971), American Law Institute (member council 1969, president 1980-1993, chairman council 1993-2008), American Arbitration Association (board directors 1966-1971), Russian Institute Directors (member expert council 2002-2006), Indiana Directors Association (member advisory committee Russia 2002-2006).
Recipient Special Merit citation American Judicature Society, 1989, Harvard Law School Association award, 1994, 50 Year award Fellows of American Bar Association, 2002.
Recipient Special Merit citation American Judicature Society, 1989, Harvard Law School Association award, 1994, 50 Year award Fellows of American Bar Association, 2002.