I provide strategic and practical advice to entrepreneurs and investors as they navigate legal and business challenges.
About Roy
Roy represents disruptive, high-growth companies in complicated strategic matters and in critical transactions, from formation to exit. Roy’s experience also includes advising venture capital investors, buyers and sellers on transactions with an aggregate value in the billions of dollars. Roy collaborates with companies across many industries – including digital health, sports and entertainment, media, consumer products, software, AI and fintech. Drawing on his background as in-house counsel at a fantasy sports company and being a startup founder himself, Roy brings a unique perspective to his clients’ legal and business needs.
Roy’s representative company-side clients include:
- Alma
- Arthur AI
- BigID
- BLADE
- Casper Sleep
- Citizen
- Code Ocean
- Fanatics
- Gopuff
- Kasisto
- KeyMe
- Pearl Health
- Rent the Runway
- Runway AI
- Runwise
- SeatGeek
- SmartAsset
- Sofar Sounds
- Thesis
- Tomorrow Health
- VidMob
- Walnut
- zerocool
Roy’s representative investor-side clients include:
- Canapi Ventures
- Compound
- Cornucopian Capital
- Edison Partners
- Exor
- FirstMark Capital
- Floating Point
- FootPrint Coalition
- Notation Capital
- Work-Bench
Education
Columbia Law School
JD, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 2012
Emory University Goizueta Business School
BBA, Finance and Operations Management, with honors, 2009
Rankings and accolades
Forbes 30 Under 30 (2016)
Memberships and affiliations
New York City Bar Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Committee