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Contributor profiles<br />
(SEC) registered and private securities<br />
offerings and domestic and cross-border<br />
listings. Her corporate governance practice<br />
includes advising companies on their<br />
disclosure obligations and governance<br />
matters, including compliance with SEC<br />
requirements, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act<br />
and listing standards of the NYSE and<br />
NASDAQ. She has also advised a number<br />
of companies on issues relating to financial<br />
statement restatements. Ms. Flow has<br />
been recognized as a “leading lawyer”<br />
for capital markets by the IFLR 1000<br />
Guide to the World’s Leading Law Firms<br />
and distinguished for her capital markets<br />
practice by The U.S. Legal 500. Ms. Flow<br />
is currently Chair of the Committee on<br />
Securities Regulation of the New York City<br />
Bar Association. Based in the New York<br />
office, Ms. Flow became a partner in 2004.<br />
She is a member of the Bar in New York.<br />
John Palenberg<br />
Partner<br />
jpalenberg@cgsh.com<br />
John Palenberg’s practice focuses on<br />
international capital markets transactions,<br />
particularly matters related to Japan and<br />
German-speaking Europe, and corporate<br />
governance issues. He has extensive<br />
experience with international debt and equity<br />
financings, restructurings, recapitalizations<br />
and refinancings involving obligors in the<br />
United States, Europe, Africa and the<br />
Commonwealth of Independent States.<br />
Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, The<br />
Legal 500 UK and The Legal 500 U.S.<br />
recognize him as one of the world’s best<br />
capital markets lawyers. Mr. Palenberg was<br />
resident in the Frankfurt office from 1996 to<br />
2000 and in the London office from 2000 to<br />
2010, and from 2004 to 2010, he divided<br />
his time between the London and Cologne<br />
offices. Prior to his return to the United<br />
States, JUVE ranked him as among the<br />
leading seven attorneys in Germany for debt<br />
offerings. Currently based in the New York<br />
office, Mr. Palenberg became a partner in<br />
1991. He is a member of the Bar in New York.<br />
Mary E. Alcock, a counsel in the Cleary<br />
Gottlieb New York office, provided<br />
executive compensation and employee<br />
benefits expertise for this guide. In addition,<br />
Cleary Gottlieb associates Alex Speyer,<br />
Craig Fischer and Fred Martin, all of whom<br />
focus on corporate and financial matters,<br />
provided invaluable assistance, as did<br />
Cleary Gottlieb associates Liliane Diaba,<br />
who focuses on executive compensation<br />
and employee benefits, Brynn Lyerly, who<br />
focuses on litigation, and Julie Yip-Williams,<br />
who focuses on M&A and corporate<br />
governance. Cleary Gottlieb senior attorney<br />
Elizabeth Chang provided expertise in the<br />
area of Blue Sky law. We also thank Cleary<br />
Gottlieb associates Catherine Skulan and<br />
Nicole Puppieni, and former associates<br />
Femi Austin, Colleen Harp and Carsten<br />
Fiege, for their assistance on the first<br />
edition of this guide.<br />
Fenwick & West LLP<br />
Silicon Valley Center<br />
801 California Street<br />
Mountain View, CA 94041<br />
United States<br />
Tel + 1 650 988 8500<br />
www.fenwick.com<br />
Jeffrey R. Vetter<br />
Partner<br />
jvetter@fenwick.com<br />
Jeffrey Vetter’s practice concentrates on<br />
public and private offerings of securities,<br />
mergers and acquisitions, counseling public<br />
and late-stage private companies and other<br />
securities law matters.<br />
Mr. Vetter’s recent public offerings<br />
include Tableau Software, Workday,<br />
Facebook, Proofpoint, Fusion-io, Jive<br />
Software, Responsys, SuccessFactors<br />
and ShoreTel. He has worked on more<br />
than 45 IPOs during his career. Mr. Vetter<br />
also represents underwriters of numerous<br />
initial public offerings, including the initial<br />
public offerings of Marin Software, Model<br />
N, Jive Software, Fusion-io, Salesforce.<br />
com and Omniture, and has experience<br />
with other public and private offerings<br />
of debt and equity securities and stock<br />
exchange listings, including the listing of<br />
SuccessFactors on the NYSE and Frankfurt<br />
Stock Exchange, corporate governance<br />
matters and joint ventures.<br />
Mr. Vetter has also advised companies<br />
with respect to corporate governance and<br />
SEC matters, activist stockholders and joint<br />
ventures. He also advises a variety of latestage<br />
private companies.<br />
Mr. Vetter was named a 2012 Attorney<br />
of the Year by The Recorder and is listed<br />
in Chambers USA for capital markets:<br />
debt & equity, U.S. News–Best Lawyers®<br />
for securities and capital markets law<br />
and is repeatedly selected as a Northern<br />
California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers,<br />
a Thomson Reuters publication.<br />
William L. Hughes<br />
Partner<br />
whughes@fenwick.com<br />
William Hughes’s practice focuses<br />
on securities offerings, counseling<br />
public companies and securities law<br />
compliance. His experience encompasses<br />
initial public offerings, follow-on equity<br />
offerings, investment-grade debt offerings,<br />
NYSE IPO Guide<br />
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