Bruce A. Cheatham

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, $250,000,000 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 its 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"