Roger P. Meyers

M&A, Shareholder, and Corporate Governance

• Defended closely held manufacturing business owner in $100 million alter-ego / veil-piercing action.
• Defended CEO of closely held financial-services company through trial and appeal in litigation involving claims of shareholder oppression, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.
• Represented plaintiff investor through arbitration to final award of complex business dispute on claims for statutory oppression, breach of fiduciary duty, and conversion.
• Defended seller of digital marketing company in post-closing litigation with former investment advisor.
• Counsel for outside management of agricultural products holding company in business torts and governance action.

Class Actions

• Trial counsel for auto manufacturer in putative class action alleging fraud and deceptive trade practices relating to brake master cylinders.
• Defended software company in class action for alleged constitutional violations in connection with payment processing.
• Trial counsel for auto manufacturer in putative class action alleging fraud and deceptive trade practices relating to water pumps.
• Defended marketing firm in significant Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action.
• Represented auto manufacturer in putative class action alleging breach of warranty and fraud relating to alleged transmission defect.
• Secured victories in two substantive arbitrability disputes stemming from an oil consumption class action.

Health Care

• Defended leading health care system and CEO in False Claims Act retaliation action.
• Counsel for national practice management company in arbitration against hospital and litigation against incumbent physician group arising from breach of contract, tortious interference, and defamation.
• Represented HMO in a series of contractual disputes with several physician groups.
• Counsel for major physician group in tortious-interference action involving complex peer review and HIPAA issues.
• Represented plaintiff executive in fraud, embezzlement, and fiduciary-duty action against former partner in home health care company.
• Defended prosthetics and medical equipment company in a multi-million dollar trademark and post-closing adjustment action arising out of divestiture of a line of business.
• Conducted large scale health-care internal investigation involving several dozen physician and staff interviews.
• Counsel for plaintiff anesthesia services provider in mass tortious-interference and employee mobility action.

Telecommunications, Technology and New Media

• Counsel for software company in $100 million patent, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition action.
• Represented plaintiff telecommunications company in two-week jury trial and appeal in fraud, fiduciary duty, and partnership dispute.
• Defended telephone company in $40 million fraud and preference action arising out of tariff dispute.
• Represented plaintiff cloud-services company in partnership and fraud litigation arising out of government contracting.
• Trial and appellate counsel for a high-tech manufacturing portfolio company in a $4 million royalty dispute involving extensive electronic discovery and an accounting before a special master.
• Represented marketing and business-services company in employee mobility, confidentiality, and trade-secret misappropriation action against former executive team.

Financial Services

• Regularly represents a major national broker-dealer firm in trade-secret, employee mobility, and customer disputes, including multiple TRO/preliminary injunction proceedings and a five-day FINRA arbitration in 2024.
• Defended investment advisory firm in negligent hiring / oversight action arising out of associated advisor’s wrongdoing.
• Defended investment bank against fiduciary duty and other claims asserted by former partner in FINRA arbitration.
• Counsel for private equity firm in $40 million series of investor securities-fraud actions.
• Regional counsel for two major broker-dealers for FINRA arbitration and financial advisor depositions.
• Defended national broker-dealer in employee mobility litigation involving extensive forensic issues.

Other Notable Matters

• Defended leading truck manufacturer in $80 million supply dispute.
• Represented mining company in $25 million breach of lease action involving complex hydrogeology and geology issues.
• Counsel for global manufacturer in real-estate dispute regarding its world headquarters.
• Represented Michigan Senate and House of Representatives in challenges to state election law.
• Counsel for engineering firm in multi-party action involving a complex kickback scheme.
• Defended international importer against franchise, fraud, and other business tort claims.

Before joining Bush Seyferth PLLC, Roger was a Partner at Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP. He also served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Kethledge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, a founding partner of BSP.

While attending the University of Michigan Law School, Roger was the Articles Editor for the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform.

Roger came to his legal career with a decade of prior professional experience, including as general manager of a business with nearly $10 million in annual revenues and as a software consultant in the health care industry.

Honors & Awards

Michigan Super Lawyers (2020 – present)

Michigan Super Lawyers, Top 100, (MI: ‘24)

Chambers USA Guide, Litigation: General Commercial (Michigan) Band 3 (2023 – 2024)

Benchmark Litigation, Future Star (2024 – present)

Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation (2024 – present)

Michigan Lawyers Weekly, Leaders in the Law (2023)

DBusiness Top Lawyers (2023 – Present)

Michigan Lawyers Weekly, Go-To Lawyers for Business Law (2022)

Detroit Bar Association Foundation Fellows Class (2020)

Michigan Super Lawyers, Rising Star (2012-2019)

America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators® for Michigan (2018)

Legal Aid Defender Association, Recognized for Pro Bono Service (2012)

University of Michigan Law School, Order of the Coif

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Professional Activities

Law360, Michigan Editorial Advisory Board Member (2024)

American Bar Foundation, Life Fellow

Leading Lawyers, Member (2023)

Detroit Bar Association, Board of Directors 

Detroit Bar Association, President-Elect

Detroit Bar Association, Judicial Candidate Evaluation Committee Member

American Bar Association, Commercial and Business Litigation Committee, Subcommittee Chair (Past)

Eastern District of Michigan Bar Association, Sustaining Member, Subcommittee Chair (Past)

Oakland County Bar Association, Sustaining Member

Oakland County Bar Foundation, Fellow

Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, Delegate

State Bar of Michigan – Appellate Practice Section and Litigation Section, Member

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For Fun

Favorite Pastime: Boating

Instruments Played: Guitar, Piano

Favorite Animal: Tiger