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Cross Border 2009: Cross-Border Tender Offers & Other Emerging Issues for 2009
Tina Chalk
Special Counsel, Office of Mergers & Acquisitions
US Securities and Exchange Commission
Christina Chalk has been an attorney with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission since 1995. Ms. Chalk is currently a Senior Special Counsel in the Office of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Division of Corporation Finance, with special expertise in the area of cross-border business combinations. Ms. Chalk is a graduate of Duke University and The Washington College of Law at the American University.
James J. Moloney
Partner and Co-Chair, Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
James J. Moloney is a partner and Co-Chair of the firm's Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group and is resident in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn. He is also a member of the firm's Corporate Transactions Practice Group focusing primarily on securities, mergers and acquisitions, friendly and hostile tender offers, proxy contests, going-private transactions, and general corporate matters.
Mr. Moloney was with the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. for six years before joining Gibson Dunn in June 2000. He served his last three years at the Commission as Special Counsel in the Office of Mergers & Acquisitions in the Division of Corporation Finance. In addition to reviewing merger transactions, Mr. Moloney was the principal draftsman of Regulation M-A, a comprehensive set of rules relating to takeovers and shareholder communications, that was adopted by the Commission in October 1999.
Mr. Moloney advises a range of listed companies on reporting and other obligations under the securities laws, establishment of corporate compliance programs, and compliance with corporate governance standards under the securities laws and stock exchange rules. He has advised companies in connection with SEC and other U.S. regulatory investigations, and stock exchange proceedings, and works closely with partners in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group on securities-related lawsuits and investigations.
In the cross-border M&A arena, Mr. Moloney has been involved in cross-border tender offers, exchange offers and going private transactions. He has advised bidders as well as targets, and major shareholders of targets, on the registration, disclosure and reporting obligations under the securities laws arising from such transactions.
Mr. Moloney has authored a number of no-action requests to the SEC. He oversees the preparation of firm memoranda on securities law and corporate governance issues. Mr. Moloney is a frequent contributor to professional journals and other publications and regularly serves as a panelist for presentations and seminars on a range of corporate governance and securities law topics.
In 1998, Mr. Moloney received his LL.M. degree in securities regulation with distinction from the Georgetown University Law Center. He received his J.D. degree cum laude from Pepperdine University in 1994 where he was an editor of The Pepperdine Law Review. In 1992, Mr. Moloney served as a judicial extern for Justice Armand Arabian at the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. He received his B.S. degree in business administration from Boston University in 1989.
Mr. Moloney has been a member of the California Bar since 1994. He serves as the Vice Chair of the Proxy Statements and Business Combinations Subcommittee of the Federal Regulation of Securities Section of the American Bar Association. In addition, he is a board member of the Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance at Cal State Fullerton.
John J. Huber
Partner
Latham & Watkins LLP
John J. Huber, a partner with Latham & Watkins since 1986, counsels clients, including companies and investment banking firms, on securities offerings, tender offers and mergers. He also advises companies, audit and compensation committees on a broad range of securities regulation issues, including securities law, accounting, restatements, internal control over financial reporting and corporate governance.
Mr. Huber is the former director and deputy director of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance. During his 11 years at the SEC, he was responsible for the Division's rule-making program for the integrated disclosure system, shelf registration, going private and the first permanent rules governing tender offers. He supervised the Division's review and comment process of filings by public companies.
Mr. Huber is an editor of The Practitioner's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , published by the American Bar Association. He is a former chairman of the ABA's Subcommittee on Securities Registration and the ABA's Task Force on Regulation Financial Disclosure as well as a former member of the NASD's Corporate Finance Committee. Mr. Huber is a frequent speaker at securities law and accounting conferences.
Mr. Huber is listed in the 2009 Best Lawyers in America survey in the Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Securities Law categories. Mr. Huber is also cited as one of the leading securities lawyers in the Washington, D.C. market by Chambers & Partners in its 2008 Global Directory and described as, "one of the major players in securities advisory matters."
Cross Border 2009: Cross-Border Tender Offers & Other Emerging Issues for 2009
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