Roland A. Paul was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a suma cum laude graduate of Yale University and a magna cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Law Review. Upon graduation he served as Law Clerk to Judge Sterry R. Waterman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He practiced law with Cravath Swaine & Moore and Simpson Thacher & Bartlet in New York City, and was counsel to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on U.S. Security Commitments Abroad. For more than 20 years, he was the Vice President-General Counsel of Howmet Corporation in Greenwich.
Mr. Paul's practice focuses primarily on private equity, corporate, commercial and securities matters, including acquisitions and financings. He also has experience in a wide range of other fields of law. He is admitted to the bars of the States of Connecticut, and New York.
Mr. Paul is a member of the American Bar Association and the Council on Foreign Relations.
