Robert J. Borghese is a corporate and transactional attorney in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York, New York. His practice focuses on advising emerging growth companies on new venture structuring and formation, corporate strategic planning, private equity and debt financings, and general corporate legal and transactional issues including technology development and licensing, mergers and acquisitions, employment, intellectual property and joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Mr. Borghese has represented entrepreneurs from inception through the creation of billion-dollar enterprises across a range of industries including technology, healthcare, biotechnology, and financial services.

For the past eighteen years, Mr. Borghese has been a member of the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches a top-rated course on Legal and Transactional Aspects of Entrepreneurship in the Wharton M.B.A., Executive M.B.A., and Executive Masters in Technology Management programs. He is the author of M&A from Planning to Integration: Executing Acquisitions and Increasing Shareholder Value, published by McGraw-Hill in English and Chinese language versions. He has appeared as a guest on CNBC’s Power Lunch and CNNfn’s The Money Gang and has been quoted in Fortune, Forbes, and Inc. Mr. Borghese lectures extensively on entrepreneurship and venture initiation and is currently working on a Wharton Executive seminar entitled, The Opportunity of a Lifetime Comes Along Every Two Weeks: Insights and Strategies for Identifying, Structuring and Capitalizing on Entrepreneurial Opportunity.

Mr. Borghese is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has an M.A. in Economics from King’s College, Cambridge University, England, and a B.S. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.