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| Practice Areas | Corporate Law; Securities; International Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Counseling; Corporate Governance | | | Education | Indiana University, J.D., cum laude, 1983, Indiana University (B.S., 1980; M.B.A., 1983) | | | Admitted | 1984, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; U.S. Tax Court | |
| Memberships | Chicago Bar Association (Chairman, 1999-2000, Vice Chairman, 1998-1999 and Reporter, 1997-1998, Securities Law Committee; Chairman, 1996-1998, Securities Exchange Act Sub-Committee; Member, Corporation and Securities Law Committees), Illinois State Bar Association (Member, Section of Corporation, Securities and Business Law), American Bar Association (Member, Business Law Section and Federal Regulation of Securities Sub-Committees on Disclosure and Continuous Reporting and Proxy Statements and Business Combinations), Inter-Pacific and International Bar Associations; The Economic Club of Chicago; The Executives Club of Chicago; Cleveland Clinic Heart Center; United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Chicago. | | | Languages | Japanese | | | Born | Jeffersonville, Indiana, May 3, 1958 | | | Biography | Phi Eta Sigma; Phi Delta Phi. Executive and Planning Committees, Northwestern University School of Law Annual Ray Garrett, Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute, 2002-2006; Co-Chair, Practising Law Institute, Preparation of Annual Disclosure Documents, 2004-2007; Co-Chair, Practising Law Institute, Audit Committee Workshop, September 14, 2006; Program Faculty Member: Practising Law Institute and Bowne of Chicago, SEC Issues Update Seminar, December 6, 2005; Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Buying & Selling Businesses; Insight Information, Negotiating and Drafting Major Business Agreements, 2001-2006; R.R. Donnelley and Glasser LegalWorks, SEC Hot Topics Institute September 27, 2005; PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sarbanes-Oxley Update: A Framework for Decision Making, November 4, 2004; Executive Breakfast Briefing: Are you Ready? Form 8-K in Four Days - New SEC Regulations and The New Reality, July 27, 2004; Glasser Legal/Works & R.R. Donnelley Financial, SEC Hot Topics Institute, May 4, 2004; Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Federal Securities Law, May 5, 2003; Executive Briefing: The New Accountability, October 23, 2002; Deloitte & Touche Webcast, SEC Issues Update, October 3, 2002; SEC Issues Update 2002, Glasser LegalWorks Seminar, April 30, 2002; Mergers and Acquisitions Institute, University of Chicago, October 29-30, 2001; Securities Law Seminar, Chicago Bar Association, May 22, 2001; SEC Issues Update 2001, Glasser LegalWorks Seminar, May 1, 2001; Buying and Selling Businesses - Negotiating, Structuring & Closing the Deal, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, March 16, 2001; Mergers & Acquisitions Institute, Fulcrum Seminars, June 22, 2000; SEC Issues Update 2000, Glasser LegalWorks Seminar, May 11, 2000; Conducting Due Diligence, Practising Law Institute Seminar, June 10, 1999; Chicago Bar Association Corporation Law Seminar, May 6, 1999; Annual Securities Law Institute, Chicago Bar Association, March 18, 1998; Publications: "Compliance Programs for Private Companies," The Corporate Compliance & Regulatory Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 12, August 2006; "Proxy Solicitation Developments," Practising Law Institute, January 2006; "Illinois Business Entities," Editor and Chapter Author, LexisNexis Matthew Bender, December 2005; "Disclosure Challenges," Practising Law Institute/Bowne, December 2005; "International and Cross-Border Agreements," Insight Information Inc., October 2005; "Liability under the New Securities Offering Reform," R.R. Donnelley and Glasser LegalWorks, September 2005; "Mergers and Acquisitions, Preliminary Considerations," Illinois Business Law Series: Volume IV, IICLE 2005; "The New Media MD&A, Off Balance Sheet Arrangements, and Critical Accounting Policies," R.R. Donnelley and Glasser LegalWorks, May 2004; "Audit Committees and Auditor Independence: The Three-Pronged Regulatory Approach," Northwestern University Annual Ray Garrett, Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute, April 11, 2003; "Recent Developments—Proxy Statements and Disclosures," Glasser LegalWorks, April 30, 2002; "Material Adverse Change Clauses in Acquisition Agreements," Northwestern University Annual Ray Garrett, Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute, April 11, 2002; "International and Cross Border Agreements," Insight Information Inc., December 2001; "Communicating with Employees, Customers, Investors, Analysts and the Media," Executive Enterprises, October 2001; "Securities Law Issues in Raising Capital," Chicago Bar Association, May 2001; "Proxy Statements and Disclosure," Glasser LegalWorks, April 11, 2001; "Non-Tax Issues in Asset vs. Stock Transactions," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, March 2001; "Director's and Officer's Liability, Prevention, Insurance and Indemnification," Law Journal Press, 2000; "Achieving a Positive Outcome: The Friendly Deal," Fulcrum, June 2000; "Audit Committees," Glasser LegalWorks, May 2000; "Buying and Selling Businesses," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2000; "Proposed Regulations under the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934," Chicago Bar Association, May 1999; "Shareholder Proposals under Rule 14a-8 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934," Chicago Bar Association Annual Securities Law Institute, Mar. 1998; "Protecting a Friendly Deal from a Hostile Offer," The Corporate Board, Vol. XVI, No. 95, Nov./Dec. 1995; "When East Meets West: Understanding Contract Laws Remedies in the People's Republic of China," 3 Willamette University Bulletin of International Law & Policy, No. 1, 1996. With Mori Sogo Law Offices (now Mori Hamada Matsumoto), Tokyo, Japan, 1991-1993. | | | ISLN | 908675775 | |
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SEC Proposes to Add Flexibility to E-Proxy Rules To Increase Voter ResponseJerry J. Burgdoerfer, William L. Tolbert, Elaine Wolff, Michael L. DeMarino, October 28, 2009 The number of individual shareholders who vote when they receive only a notice informing them of the availability of proxy materials on the internet is significantly lower than when those shareholders receive a full set of proxy materials, according to recent statistics. In response to this trend,...
SEC Proposes Amendments Likely to Impact the 2010 Proxy SeasonJerry J. Burgdoerfer, William L. Tolbert, Elaine Wolff, July 13, 2009 With the July 1, 2009 proposed rule changes by the SEC, the 2010 proxy season is likely to see pronounced changes. The SEC's proposed rule changes are aimed at further enhancing shareholder rights.
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