Charles Roh Jr

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar

Since 1973

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Current

Current

Bear Stearns Merchant Banking Acquisition of MC Shipping Inc. Advised Bear Stearns Merchant Banking in connection with its $284 million acquisition of MC Shipping Inc.

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Bridgepoint Capital Ltd. Acquisition of Global Design Technologies LLC Advised Bridgepoint Capital in connection with its acquisition of Global Design Technologies LLC.

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Avista Capital Partners Acquisition of BioReliance Corporation Represented Avista Capital Partners in its $210 million acquisition of BioReliance Corporation from Invitrogen Corporation.

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Republic of Ecuador EnCana Corporation v. The Republic of Ecuador Defended against allegations of breach of the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty. Won dismissal of all claims. more

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Candover Investments plc Acquisition of the High Technology Optics division of Thales S.A. Advised Candover Investments plc in connection with its €220 million acquisition of the High Technology Optics division of Thales S.A. more

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Government of Canada Arbitration Pursuant to the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement The Weil Gotshal team is representing the Government of Canada in a multi-million dollar dispute with the U.S. Government over the interpretation of certain provisions of the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) between the two countries. Canada and the United States have had a long-running disagreement over trade in Canadian softwood lumber and Weil Gotshal has consistently represented Canada in the multitude of proceedings that have been initiated, as a result, over the last 15 years. These have included U.S. administrative agency proceedings, appeals of agency determinations to US domestic courts, NAFTA binational panels, and the World Trade Organization, and a series of arbitrations under a former agreement on lumber between the parties. Differences between the countries were most recently settled by the 2006 Agreement, which entered into force in October 2006. Under the terms of the Agreement, the United States agreed to refrain from initiating trade actions of any kind against Canadian exports for the duration of the Agreement and Canada agreed to impose export charges and volume restraints on its export of softwood lumber. The United States has now alleged that Canada has breached the Agreement by failing to collect the proper amount of export charges from lumber producers and set the proper limits on the export of lumber from Canada. Given that this is the first dispute to arise under the 2006 Agreement, the tribunal's decisions on the matters of interpretation of several key provisions will be of major importance to the operation of the Agreement over the next 7 years. The arbitration is being conducted under the London Court of International Arbitration ("LCIA") Rules. The LCIA is a premiere institution in the field of private international commercial arbitration, and this dispute appears to be the first time two nation-states have consented to arbitrate their differences in a private commercial forum. more

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Government of Ecuador WTO Bananas Case In one of the longest running disputes in the history of the WTO and the GATT, the International Trade Group is representing the Government of Ecuador in a complaint that the EC is, once again, discriminating against Ecuadorian bananas in violation of its WTO obligations and without complying with the terms of waivers previously granted.

Harvard University

J.D.

1973

Princeton University

B.A.

1969

District of Columbia Bar

Member

1973 - Current

Publication

Publication

"Arbitrations Around the World," High Stakes Arbitrations, International and Domestic. Sponsored by Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. (Dallas, September 25, 2002)

How Free is Free Trade These Days? Ontario Today Phone-In (Washington DC, May 23, 2002)