PLG is pleased to welcome Robert Cicero as a partner in our Corporate & Transactional practice group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Robert advises private and public companies on complex corporate transactions and strategic growth initiatives across the full business lifecycle. He brings more than three decades of experience helping leadership teams, founder-led businesses, entrepreneurs, and private investors as they navigate the ever-expanding opportunities, risks and challenges in today’s fast-moving business environment. Robert is known for his ability to operate as a trusted strategic partner, bringing a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach, informed by over twenty years of experience in executive in-house roles, most recently as general counsel and chief compliance officer of a publicly traded company, over a decade in private practice in some of the largest and most sophisticated law firms in the world, and stints leading international sales and the human resource function.
Robert’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, corporate governance, and commercial contracting, with a particular focus on entity formation and capital structure for early-stage growth companies, sellers in private equity rollups, and raising capital through unregistered securities offerings. Robert also serves as outside general counsel to small and mid-market companies, leveraging his broad experience across diverse corporate disciplines, to advise clients on employment and consulting agreements, incentive equity plans, executive compensation, governance arrangements, strategic licensing, and activist and minority stakeholder engagement.
Clients value Robert’s judgment, his “insider” business perspective, and his ability to translate complex legal requirements into clear, actionable guidance that supports strategic business objectives. Robert tries to meet his clients where they are, solving business problems with legally informed business solutions, relentlessly trying to be the outside counsel he would have hired when he was the client, studying and seeking to understand emerging technologies and the impact they have on his clients, and leveraging those technologies to enhance his own practice for his clients’ benefit.
Prior to joining PLG, Robert was a partner and chair of the corporate practice at Byrd Campbell P.A. and General Counsel of a publicly traded company. He earned his J.D. with distinction from the Hofstra University School of Law and his B.A. with honors from The Catholic University of America.
