SEC Adopts Amendments to
Rules 144 and 145

Katherine Hsu
Special Counsel, Office of Rulemaking, Division of Corporation Finance
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Katherine Hsu is a Special Counsel in the Office of Rulemaking for the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She joined the Commission as a staff attorney in 2001 and worked in the Division’s Operations section and the Office of Enforcement Liaison before joining the Office of Rulemaking in 2005. Katherine played a key role in the drafting of the recently adopted amendments to Rules 144 and 145 of the Securities Act.

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Laurie L. Green
Partner
Holland & Knight LLP

Laurie L. Green advises public companies on the corporate governance requirements of the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ, and the SEC's corporate governance standards under Sarbanes-Oxley.

In addition to her corporate governance experience, Ms. Green represents companies in securities offerings, proxy solicitations, periodic reporting and compliance matters under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, mergers and acquisitions, cash tender offers, cross-border tender offers, and distressed debt restructuring and exchange offers. Before entering private practice, Ms. Green spent 11 years at the SEC and served as Special counsel in the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance in Washington, D.C. in its Office of Mergers and Acquisitions.

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Ronald O. Mueller
Partner
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

Ronald O. Mueller is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Mueller works in the corporate/securities area with an emphasis on proxy and disclosure issues, corporate governance, executive compensation (including Section 16 and Rule 144) and corporate transactions.

Mr. Mueller has written articles and spoken at seminars about a variety of securities law issues, including trends and developments in proxy disclosures and proxy contests, the SEC's disclosure requirements, corporate governance developments, and executive compensation disclosure rules. He is Chair of the Subcommittee on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation of the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, Section of Business Law, American Bar Association. Likewise, he chairs the West Legalworks Annual Institute on Proxy Statements and Critical Corporate Disclosures and is a speaker at the ABA Annual Institute on Executive Compensation and at The Corporate Counsel/Corporate Executive seminars on executive compensation. Mr. Mueller is a contributing author to A Practical Guide to Section 16, Prentice Hall, A Practical Guide to SEC Proxy and Compensation Rules, Prentice Hall, Securities in the Electronic Age, Glasser LegalWorks, and Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Insider Reporting and Short-Swing Trading, Matthew Bender.

Mr. Mueller is admitted to practice before the courts of New York and Washington, D.C., and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Mueller received his J.D., from Columbia Law School in 1986, where he was both a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar and a James Kent Scholar, and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University in 1982. From September 1989 to June 1991, Mr. Mueller separated from the firm to work as legal counsel to Commissioner Edward H. Fleischman at the United States Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). While at the SEC, Mr. Mueller worked on many of the matters before the Commission, including enforcement matters and regulatory initiatives.

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SEC Adopts Amendments to
Rules 144 and 145
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