Robert A. Lonergan joined Rohm and Haas Company in 1999 as vice president and general counsel. Mr. Lonergan is responsible for all of the Company’s legal affairs, directing the efforts of 50 Rohm and Haas in-house attorneys, and scores of outside law firms. Mr. Lonergan is also responsible for ensuring that the company continues to meet compliance, regulatory, safety, environmental, and employment law obligations in the more than 100 countries in which Rohm and Haas conducts business. In 2002, he was elected corporate secretary. Mr. Lonergan began his career and honed his litigation skills with the antitrust group at Cadwalader, Wickersham, & Taft (New York, NY) and supervised antitrust, securities, product liability, toxic tort, and trademark litigation as counsel for Bethlehem Steel Corporation (Bethlehem, PA). Mr. Lonergan held the position of vice president, general counsel and secretary at Kusan, Inc. (Brentwood, TN) and later served as vice president, general counsel, secretary and board member for Kennecott Corp. (Salt Lake City, UT), where he was responsible for all legal affairs at this mining and heavy metals company. Immediately before coming to Rohm and Haas, Mr. Lonergan served as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Pegasus Gold Inc. (Spokane, WA), an international natural resources company. He earned his A.B. degree in English Literature at Fordham College. After serving as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, he received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law (1975). Mr. Lonergan also completed the Finance for Senior Executives Program at the Harvard Business School (1997). Mr. Lonergan serves on the Science, Technology and Law Committee of the National Academy of Sciences; as a trustee of the Atlantic Legal Foundation, the Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Walnut Street Theatre; as a director of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, and the Corporate Executive Board of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and is a founding member of the Independence Mall Business and Residents Coalition.
