In his almost three decades at Hogan Lovells, Richard Horan has handled more than 150 public and private merger and acquisition transactions. A member of the firm’s global Mergers and Acquisitions leadership team as well as the steering committee for the Automotive industry group and a senior advisor of the Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services group, Richard has also previously chaired the practice’s Mergers and Acquisitions Coordinating Committee.

Richard represents public and private companies in many sectors, with particular emphasis on regulated industries. His broad transactional background includes matters for clients in the automotive, defense, government contracts, communications, media, technology, diversified industrials, homeland security, and pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.

He also has wide-ranging experience advising clients on various acquisition structures, including public and private mergers, stock and asset purchases, divestitures, spin-offs, and auction transactions.

Richard has served on the firm’s Executive Committee and is active in many nonprofit, political, and professional organizations including as a director of the Fairfax Law Foundation, a member of the Alumni Board of the James Madison University Political Science Department, and a regular coach for numerous youth athletic teams. He has also taught a seminar on mergers and acquisitions at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Prior to joining the firm in 1988, Richard served as a law clerk to the Honorable James C. Cacheris, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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