BRUCE W. McROY

bmcroy@rppmh.com

Bruce McRoy is a founding partner of the firm. His practice focuses on representing public and private enterprises and individuals with respect to business, corporate, securities, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and tax matters. He has served as outside counsel and as special counsel on securities, acquisition and intellectual property transactions for domestic and foreign clients including publicly traded corporations, early stage manufacturing and development companies,  academic and R&D organizations, and consolidated groups with international operations.

Prior to joining the firm, Bruce was a Partner in the Business Department of the national intellectual property law firm of Spensley, Horn, Jubas & Lubitz in Los Angeles. While with Spensley Horn, Bruce represented a wide-range of public and private industrial and technology based companies and professionals with respect to their domestic and international corporate, corporate securities, tax and licensing matters, including public and private offerings of securities and other financings, mergers and acquisitions and development, manufacturing and licensing matters.

Bruce graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1975. He was an Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. He is a member of the California, American and Santa Barbara Bar Associations.

Since moving to Santa Barbara in 1994, Bruce has been active in the local community.  He was the organizer and Chairman of the Technology Business Section of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association.  He is also an officer and Director of the Science and Engineering Council and is active with and past General Counsel to the Santa Barbara Industrial Association. He was a Director of the Systems & Software Consortium, an incubator organized to facilitate the formation of local technology enterprises.

From 1968 to 1971, Bruce served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in shore-based and airborne anti-submarine warfare operations.