Robert A. Hudson is a shareholder based in Butzel Long’s Detroit office and serves as Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department. He is a graduate of Wayne State University (B.A. with Distinction, 1969; J.D., cum laude, 1972), and was on the editorial board of the Wayne Law Review.
Mr. Hudson represents domestic and foreign public and private companies and high-technology companies in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, e-commerce and general business matters. He has extensive experience in securities matters including numerous public and private equity and debt offerings, venture capital finance, compliance, reporting requirements, going private transactions, investment management, the organization of hedge funds and corporate governance matters. He regularly assists foreign-based companies in connection with U.S. and cross-border transactions, joint ventures, distribution and sale arrangements and trade matters. His industry expertise includes manufacturing, high-technology including software, Internet and computer services, financial services, automotive and real estate investment trusts.
Robert A. Hudson is a shareholder based in Butzel Long’s Detroit office and serves as Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department. He is a graduate of Wayne State University (B.A. with Distinction, 1969; J.D., cum laude, 1972), and was on the editorial board of the Wayne Law Review.
Mr. Hudson represents domestic and foreign public and private companies and high-technology companies in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, e-commerce and general business matters. He has extensive experience in securities matters including numerous public and private equity and debt offerings, venture capital finance, compliance, reporting requirements, going private transactions, investment management, the organization of hedge funds and corporate governance matters. He regularly assists foreign-based companies in connection with U.S. and cross-border transactions, joint ventures, distribution and sale arrangements and trade matters. His industry expertise includes manufacturing, high-technology including software, Internet and computer services, financial services, automotive and real estate investment trusts.
Mr. Hudson served as general counsel for a NASDAQ listed company during its adoption of the corporate governance provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and under listing requirements and handled a wide variety of the company’s general corporate and regulatory issues. He has also appeared before the United States Supreme Court, the Securities and Exchange Commission and numerous other courts and agencies. He is a trained mediator and arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and FINRA and for private disputes.
Mr. Hudson is the co-author of the BNA Corporate Series Portfolio No. 60-2nd, Initial Public Offerings, and the co-editor of the Michigan Business Formbook published by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education. He was also a contributing author to A Practical Guide to E-Business Law (ICLE). He frequently lectures on topics involving business and securities law issues.
Mr. Hudson’s professional memberships include the ABA’s Committees on Federal Regulation of Securities, State Regulation of Securities and International Business Law, former Council Member of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, and former Chairman of the Securities and Commodities Law Committee of the Metropolitan Detroit Bar Association. His business and community memberships include President and Board member of the Michigan Chapter of the French-American Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Business Law Advisory Board of the Institute of Continuing Legal Education.
Mr. Hudson is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Corporate, M&A and Securities Law and International Trade and Finance Law) in Michigan Super Lawyers (Securities and Corporate Finance Law), Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition (International Law), Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit 2012 by DBusiness magazine (Business Law, Corporate Law, Information Technology Law, International Trade and Finance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Securities Law) and is a Martindale-Hubbell featured AV Peer Review Rated Lawyer. Mr. Hudson was also among 148 attorneys nationwide who made The BTI Consulting Group's coveted Client Services All Star Team for 2007. This honor is bestowed upon individual attorneys who deliver outstanding client service according to corporate counsel interviewed at Fortune 1000 companies.
Languages: English, French