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Dean F. Hanley
Partner
Boston
Reflecting his substantial corporate and securities experience, Dean Hanley is Chair of both the firm's Securities Practice Group and its Sarbanes-Oxley Committee. He has also served as Deputy Coordinator of the 100-lawyer Business Department.
Dean has an active transactional practice involving securities offerings and merger and acquisition transactions. He represents a wide range of clients, including high-tech businesses, manufacturers, defense contractors, start-up companies, venture capitalists, major bracket underwriters, banks and bank holding companies, and retirement services businesses.
Corporate governance is a particular focus of Dean's work. He has extensive experience in dealing with SEC and FDIC regulators on a wide range of governance issues, including emerging issues and responsibilities under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Dean also counsels on compliance aspects of mergers and acquisitions, stock exchange requirements, the SEC's insider trading rules, use of the Internet for securities offerings, the SEC's short-swing profit recapture and reporting rules, and trading and marketing regulation.
In addition to his practice leadership, Dean has for more than 10 years been Chair of the firm's Conflicts and Professional Responsibility Committee, a role in which he focuses on issues of legal ethics, attorney liability, loss prevention, malpractice insurance, and the Massachusetts conflict of interest law. He also honed his compliance experience during two terms (including the chairmanship) on the Massachusetts Board of Public Accountancy, the body that certifies and licenses CPAs in the Commonwealth.
Bars and Court Admissions
Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Representative Experience
The following is a brief summary of Dean's experience and accomplishments:
Advised a major U.S. defense contractor in connection with $300 million convertible debenture financing
Represented a publicly traded payment processing company in connection with its acquisition by another public company with a deal value of approximately $570 million
Served as principal drafter of the Securities Industry Act 1998, the first comprehensive securities statute enacted by the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana, in South America
professional / civic involvement
Appointed by Governors Cellucci and Swift to two terms as the Public Member of the five-member Massachusetts Board of Public Accountancy, the body that licenses and regulates Certified Public Accountants in the Commonwealth
Chairman of the Board, 2000-2001
Boston Bar Association, Member
American Bar Association, Member
Overseer of the Handel & Haydn Society, the oldest continuously active performing arts organization in the United States
Trustee of the Boston Camerata, an early music ensemble
SPEECHES AND CONFERENCES
Panelist, "Leave Your Company's Headlines to Marketing: ACC's Annual Corporate Governance Update," Association of Corporate Counsel, Northeast Chapter, October 18, 2006, Waltham, MA
Panelist, "Things IP Counsel Should Know When Responding to Requests from Accountants and Transaction Counsel," American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law, 19th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, April 2004, Washington, D.C.
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