William Roberts

Experience

Health Care Litigation

• Obtained summary judgment on behalf of major health care provider in False Claims Act case alleging billions of dollars in potential liability in connection with alleged regulatory compliance issues.
• Represented major pharmaceutical companies in False Claims Act litigation involving the offering of free nursing and reimbursement support services and successfully obtained dismissal of all claims.
• Successfully represented a national pharmacy in a Massachusetts Attorney General investigation into prescription drug pricing.
• Representing hospitals, academic medical centers, medical device, and pharmaceutical companies in complex commercial disputes and False Claims Act litigation.
• Represented Boston Children’s Hospital in defeating a challenge to a determination of need, brought by opponents of a much needed modernization and expansion project to build, among other things, a state-of-the-art NICU and heart center.

Restructuring Litigation

• Representing Elliott Investment Management in the contested Chapter 11 restructuring of Windstream Holdings.  
• Conducted investigation of potential related-party claims on behalf of the Special Committee of a Chapter 11 debtor.
• Represented 1.5 lien indenture trustee for $250 million of notes issued by Momentive Performance Materials following remand by the Second Circuit in precedent-setting litigation on the determination of cramdown interest rates in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• Represented the official committee of unsecured creditors in the Chapter 11 case of Sabine Oil & Gas.
• Represented a hedge fund creditor in derivatives claims litigation in Lehman bankruptcy.
• Represented the Indenture Trustee for the First Lien Noteholders in the Chapter 11 restructuring of Energy Future Intermediate Holdings LLC.
• Defending the directors of insolvent companies in fiduciary duty litigation.
• Lead trial counsel in successful Chapter 11 reorganization of a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Investment Funds

• Regularly represent private investment fund managers in responding to SEC and third party subpoenas.
• Represented leading private equity firm in COVID-related broken deal litigation in Delaware Chancery Court.
• Successfully moved to dismiss a private equity company from putative federal class action lawsuits related to the closure of a subsidiary of one of its portfolio companies, a for-profit law school.
• Representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies in complex commercial disputes, broken deal litigation, and pre-acquisition diligence.
• Advising leading venture capital firms on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and anti-corruption compliance.

Pro Bono

• Assisted the Special Master appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in litigation related to addressing COVID-19 issues in state and counties prisons and jails. 
• Co-supervising partner for the firm’s Medical Legal Partnership project, which has provided pro bono legal services to hundreds of Dorchester House patients.