Bruce A. Cheatham
Partner
Carole Bott
214.758.1602
Bruce Cheatham has practiced securities law since 1972, primarily focusing on the representation of publicly held companies. He has extensive experience with securities regulation and compliance issues, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, and raising capital in public and private offerings. He is an active member of the ABA Section of Business Law Committees on Federal Regulation of Securities, Legal Opinions, and Negotiated Acquisitions, and an active participant on Task Forces that are revising the ABA Model Stock Purchase Agreement, drafting the ABA Model Agreement and Plan of Merger for publicly held companies, and implementing the new SEC Attorney Conduct Rules mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Bruce is a frequent speaker and panelist on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and securities regulation topics, including corporate governance and other issues under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Representative Matters
Serve as corporate and securities counsel to a variety of public companies advising their Boards of Directors, Board Committees and managements on all corporate governance issues and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance matters
Represented an NYSE company in the creation, public offering and listing $500,000,000 of the first commodity-indexed bonds offered in the U.S.
Represented the sponsor in the formation, $250,0000,000 public offering and listing on the NYSE of one of the nation's largest diversified real estate investment trusts
Represented the real estate investment trust issuer in several secondary public offerings Represented an NYSE company in its acquisition of a $1 billion deep sea drilling services company
Represented an NYSE company in its sale of all it's non-U.S. businesses
Represented a private equity firm in its formation and related acquisition of the largest billing aggregator services company in the U.S.
Publications and Speeches
Editorial Committee for the American Bar Association Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions Task Force on Model Agreement and Plan of Merger (1999 – present)
Editorial Committee for the American Bar Association Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions Task Force on Model Stock Purchase Agreement (1999 – present)
Speaker, State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting, June 2007, "Negotiating Indemnification Agreement Provisions in M&A Agreements"
Speaker, State Bar of Texas 4th Annual Advanced Business Law Course, October 2006, "Indemnity Agreements in Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions"
Panelist, "Recent Developments in Mergers and Acquisitions"; 2005 ABA Annual Meeting
Speaker for Forum: Dallas CPA Society and Securities Section of the Dallas Bar Association, 2003, "What You Need to Know Now About Sarbanes-Oxley—Role of the Audit Committee"
Speaker for Committee Forum: American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, Negotiated Acquisitions Committee, 2002, "Mergers and Acquisitions, Then and Now - How Recent Regulatory, Market and Other Developments Have Changed the Face of M&A"
Speaker for Forum: ACCA & Dallas Bar Association (Securities Section) Joint Meeting, 2002, "SEC Annual Disclosure 2002"
Education
J.D., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, 1972
B.B.A., Economics, Southern Methodist University, 1968
Bar Admissions
Texas
Affiliations
State Bar of Texas
American Bar Association
Dallas Bar Association
Dallas Bar Foundation, Life Member
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
Noteworthy
Best Lawyers in America, 2008Texas Super Lawyers
Who's Who Legal, Texas 2007