Practice Areas & Industries: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

We regularly advise public and private companies in connection with a wide range of securities law compliance, corporate governance and securities transactional matters. In addition, we represent underwriters in capital raising transactions. Many of our members have derived substantial experience as former attorneys with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are frequent speakers and writers on important securities law issues.

Services Available

Public Companies: Our securities representation of issuers has included working as general and special counsel for a large and diverse group of public companies with securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and the Nasdaq National Market. Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to small and mid-sized issuers. Our lawyers have advised public companies in connection with SEC reporting requirements, proxy solicitations, corporate governance matters, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, initial public offerings, follow-on debt and equity offerings, acquisition programs, universal shelf offerings and rights offerings.

Business Development Companies: We are widely recognized for our preeminence in the representation of business development companies. Business development companies are publicly traded funds that make investments in private or thinly-traded public companies in the form of long-term debt or equity capital, with the goal of generating capital appreciation and/or current income. We currently represent more than eight business development companies and have been involved in taking four new business development companies public in the last two years.

Private Companies: We have represented private companies at every stage of development. We have assisted our private company clients in developing structures and creative financing solutions. We have represented private companies in the full range of private offerings, from initial financing rounds to nationally syndicated offerings.

Underwriters: Our lawyers act as counsel to underwriters in public offerings of debt and equity securities as well as placement agents in private offerings. We have acted as underwriter's counsel for many major national and regional investment banking firms. For the first half of 2004, we were ranked fifth in the nation by the Investment Dealer's Digest for dollar volume of issues completed as underwriter's counsel.

Clients:
Allied Capital Corporation, Safeco Corporation, CNA Financial Corporation, Lincoln National Corporation, Swiss Reinsurance Company, NEC Corporation, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Spectrum Brands, Inc., The Life Insurance Company of Georgia, RTM Restaurant Group, Inc., UBS, Allied Capital Corporation, MCG Capital Corporation, Hillman Companies, Inc., Business Loan Express, Allied Capital, SAFECO Corporation, Telmark LLC, Park Communications, ING Groep NV, Hartford Life, Aegon NV, Westinghouse Electric Company, Sheffield Medical Technologies, Ion Pharmaceuticals, eHealthinsurance.com, Planet Polymer Technologies, Zefer Corporation, Bread for the City, Allied Capital Corporation, ING America, Eureko B.V., Vitol Gas & Electric LLC, American States Financial, Apollo Investment Corporation, Prospect Energy Corporation, Forest Capital Partners LLC, First Data Corporation, T.Y. Lin International, Perkins + Will, Inc., Patriot Capital Funding, TAC Acquisition Corp., JMP Securities, LLC, UBS Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Ferris, Baker Watts Incorporated, Technology Investment Capital Corporation