We are excited by the opportunity to create. In fact, it is our resourcefulness and imagination that leads clients to bring their visions, challenges, and uncommon goals to Roberts Moghul & Partners. Our lawyers thoroughly enjoy bringing diverse cultures, markets, and communities together and designing opportunities for positive impact through profit. We offer significant experience in a variety of practice areas and sectors, serve clients with empathy, honesty and transparency, principle, and passion.
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For almost two decades, Glen W. Roberts II has counseled clients throughout the world including serial entrepreneurs, family offices, real estate and buyout funds, hybrid funds, investment managers, institutional investors, REITs, financial institutions, and governments. He previously served as a partner in the corporate/investment management practices at both the world’s largest law firm as well as an international mega-boutique focused on the business and personal needs of high-net-worth entrepreneurs and the financial institutions that serve them.
Glen is often called upon to distill highly complex situations into straightforward, executable solutions. More specifically, his recent work has included:
Glen has previously been named by Islamic Finance News as a “Leading Lawyer” in the fields of Shari’ah Investment Funds and Islamic Project Finance. Glen also led the legal team whose work was awarded USA Deal of the Year by Islamic Finance News, and was a senior member of the legal team honored by Euromoney magazine as the "Best Global Islamic Finance Legal Advisor".
Glen is a graduate of Brown University with a B.A. in Ancient Studies: Religion, and of The University of North Carolina’s School of Law, from which he earned his J.D. with Honors and served as Editor in Chief of its Law Review.
Admitted to practice only in New York and England & Wales.
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For nearly 20 years, Umar has handled a variety of corporate, financial, and commercial transactions. He has represented clients in the energy, healthcare, technology, real estate, transport and logistics, retail, and business services sectors across North America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and East Asia. His clients include sponsors, financial institutions, managers, family offices, and investors.
Umar has designed a variety of funds and collective investment vehicles, structured private equity and venture capital transactions, including leveraged buy-outs and growth equity investments, advised on real estate investments and projects, and developed international joint ventures and strategic alliances. In addition to advising on the equity side of transactions, Umar's work has also encompassed complex domestic and cross-border secured and unsecured financings.
In the realm of real estate, his practice has included the establishment of real estate investment funds (both onshore and offshore), joint ventures, and one-off financing and refinancing transactions; novel warehouse, table funding, and securitization transactions, and novel Islamic residential and commercial mortgage products.
Umar is passionate about building sustainable community organizations and towards that end developing ethically responsible funding mechanisms. He particularly enjoys representing investors and businesses focused on creating positive social and environmental impact. Umar is a thought leader in Islamic finance and serves as Executive Vice President of Gateway, an international network of lawyers focused on Islamic banking, finance, and investment as well as the many sectors of the Islamic economy. He has also worked extensively on behalf of investors in the GCC and served as Of Counsel with a premier law firm of Kuwait, Al-Hossam Legal.
Umar is Lecturer in Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he has taught courses in Islamic finance and investment as well as Islamic law and jurisprudence. He also serves as adjunct faculty at Michigan State Law School, where he teaches one of the first courses in Halal Food Law in the U.S., and Hartford Seminary, where he teaches Islamic business ethics. Umar is widely published and has spoken at numerous forums on topics including Islamic law, finance, and Muslim markets and communities. He is the author of A Socially Responsible Islamic Finance: Character and the Common Good (Palgrave-MacMillan). Umar serves on the Board of Trustees of the Hartford Seminary, a graduate educational institution whose areas of expertise include Islamic chaplaincy and interfaith leadership.
Umar earned his J.D. from Temple University and his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Admitted to practice only in Texas and New York.
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Theodore C. "Ted" Ahlgren is an international tax advisor with extensive knowledge of personal wealth planning and corporate tax gained at top tier law firms on several continents. For the past decade, his strategic guidance has benefitted financial institutions, family offices, families, and individuals in their efforts to maximize the tax - and operational - efficiency of both business and personal wealth and estate planning.
Ted’s practice focuses on tax planning and compliance matters relating to investment, wealth management, insurance, and the broader financial services sectors. He has advised on preimmigration, expatriation, and trust migration matters. He also structures family investment holding vehicles and advises on the tax aspects of acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings of real estate, portfolio investments, art and collectibles, and closely-held businesses.
In addition to his extensive global corporate, trust, and personal tax planning experience, Ted has helped international families, “accidental Americans,” and others with unplanned U.S. tax exposure reach satisfactory resolutions of their U.S. tax issues under audit and through participation in various IRS programs.
Ted has written and spoken extensively on international aspects of taxation and wealth planning, and in particular the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) regime, and is a co-author of certain of the ABA comments to Treasury on these provisions, a contributing author to the Lexis Guide to FATCA Compliance, and a contributing editor of the ABA Guide to International Estate Planning (2d edition).
He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Tax Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and was selected for inclusion as a "Rising Star" in New England Super Lawyers, 2013. Ted is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan Law School, and holds a Masters of Law (LLM) degree in Taxation from Boston University. Admitted to practice only in Connecticut, Massachusetts, District of Columbia and the U.S. Tax Court.
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Jessica brings a broad perspective to her legal practice, gained while working and living around the globe. She is zealous about building successful enterprises, solving complex challenges, and developing strategies and visions, all while maintaining ethical and socially conscious principles and practices. Jessica focuses on structuring cross-border acquisition and investment transactions, designing financial arrangements, creating sound corporate governance frameworks, and securities law compliance. Jessica also has a niche focus on the U.S.-domestic and international protection of various forms of intellectual property.
Her recent work has included:
Jessica holds a B.S. in Microbiology, a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara, and a J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School. She also graduated with honors while earning a Masters of Resource Law Studies from the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law, where she concentrated in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development.
Admitted to practice only in Colorado.