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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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