Reflecting his substantial corporate and securities experience, Dean Hanley is Chair of the firm's Sarbanes-Oxley Committee and past Chair of the firm's Securities Practice Group. He has also served as Deputy Coordinator of the 100-lawyer Business Department. Dean has an active transactional practice involving securities offerings and merger and acquisition transactions. He represents a wide range of clients, including high-tech businesses, manufacturers, defense contractors, start-up companies, venture capitalists, major bracket underwriters, banks and bank holding companies, and retirement services businesses. Corporate governance is a particular focus of Dean's work. He has extensive experience in dealing with SEC and FDIC regulators on a wide range of governance issues, including emerging issues and responsibilities under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Dean also counsels on compliance aspects of mergers and acquisitions, stock exchange requirements, the SEC's insider trading rules, use of the Internet for securities offerings, the SEC's short-swing profit recapture and reporting rules, and trading and marketing regulation. In addition to his practice leadership, Dean has for more than 10 years been Chair of the firm's Conflicts and Professional Responsibility Committee, a role in which he focuses on issues of legal ethics, attorney liability, loss prevention, malpractice insurance, and the Massachusetts conflict of interest law. He also honed his compliance experience during two terms (including the chairmanship) on the Massachusetts Board of Public Accountancy, the body that certifies and licenses CPAs in the Commonwealth. Representative Experience The following is a brief summary of Dean's experience and accomplishments: · Served as principal drafter of the Securities Industry Act 1998, the first comprehensive securities statute enacted by the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana, in South America · Represented a publicly traded payment processing company in connection with its acquisition by another public company with a deal value of approximately $570 million · Advised a major U.S. defense contractor in connection with $300 million convertible debenture financing Professional / Civic Involvement · Appointed by Governors Cellucci and Swift to two terms as the Public Member of the five-member Massachusetts Board of Public Accountancy, the body that licenses and regulates Certified Public Accountants in the Commonwealth · Chairman of the Board, 2000-2001 · Boston Bar Association, Member · American Bar Association, Member · Overseer of the Handel & Haydn Society, the oldest continuously active performing arts organization in the United States · Trustee of the Boston Camerata, an early music ensemble Speeches and Conferences · Panelist, "Leave Your Company's Headlines to Marketing: ACC's Annual Corporate Governance Update," Association of Corporate Counsel, Northeast Chapter, October 18, 2006, Waltham, MA · Panelist, "Things IP Counsel Should Know When Responding to Requests from Accountants and Transaction Counsel," American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law, 19th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, April 2004, Washington, D.C. · Panelist, "Corporate Accountability: The Enron Investigation," Northeastern University School of Law Forum on Contemporary Legal Issues, March 2004, Boston, Massachusetts · Panelist, "Corporate Governance in a Post-Enron World: Practical Guidance," Association of Corporate Counsel (Northeast Chapter), 2003 Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts · Keynote Speaker, "What's New with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?" Institute of Management Accountants -- Northeast Regional Council, Fall 2003 Mega Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts · Panelist, "Reading the Tea Leaves at the SEC," CERES 2003 Conference, New York, New York Publications · Text Interview, Dean Hanley on Responding to Audit Inquiry Letters, THECORPORATECOUNSEL.NET (November 2004) · Interviewed by Boynton, Paul D., In-House Lawyers Face Daunting Task of Making SOX Procedures Actually Work, NEW ENGLAND IN-HOUSE (October 2004) · Responding to Audit Inquiry Letters after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, GPSOLO MAGAZINE'S "BEST OF ABA SECTIONS" (September 2004) · Responding to Audit Inquiry Letters after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 22 IPL NEWSLETTER NO.2 (Winter 2004) Industries Life Sciences Related Professional Experience Adjunct Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School |