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Robert J. Hicks
Partner-in-Charge

ROBERT HICKS is a member of the Executive Committee and the Partner-in-Charge of the Indianapolis offices of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. He is a 1986 graduate of the William and Mary Law School, Williamsburg, Virginia, where he was Order of the Coif and a member of the William and Mary Law Review.   He is a 1984 graduate of Butler University, Indianapolis, passed the CPA exam, and started his career as a tax professional with Arthur Andersen. Mr. Hicks focuses his practice on complex business and commercial transactions, private equity and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, structured financings, business advisory services, and structural tax matters. He serves as outside Counsel for the two largest private equity funds in Indiana. Mr. Hicks took a hiatus from the private practice of law from 1996 through 2001 (working in Chicago, Toronto and New York) and gained experience in Wall Street transactional work and as a corporate executive.  During that period, Mr. Hicks served as Executive Vice President, Strategic Development for the CIT Group, the second largest finance company in the United States (and its predecessor, Newcourt Credit Group), President of its largest U.S. financing division, and CEO of RealMed Corporation, its largest portfolio company.  For several years, Mr. Hicks has been named to the lists of Indiana Super LawyersThe Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.