Lawyer Bio : Dean Wayne Rutley

Dean Rutley has over 20 years of experience representing companies in a wide range of corporate, transactional, and securities matters. Mr. Rutley's practice is concentrated on emerging growth and mid-market companies (both public and private) with regard to a variety of domestic and international business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate structure, compliance with federal and state securities laws, board of directors duties, and negotiated resolution of business disputes, as well as licensing and joint venture agreements. Mr. Rutley also counsels technology clients and venture capital firms in the areas of organization, financing, equity distribution, venture capital investments, and other transactional and operational matters. He also has significant specialized experience in representing mortgage banking entities in connection with M&A, tax compliance and regulatory issues.

His clients come from many industry segments including information technology, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, government contracts, e-commerce, and biotechnology.

Mr. Rutley's practice has included the following:

• Represented Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE:HPY) in multiple acquisitions, including the $80 million acquisition of the Network Services business of Alliance Data Systems Corporation.
• Represented Penn Diagnostics in the sale of its ONCAD related intellectual property to Invivo Corporation (subsidiary of Philips Healthcare)
• Represented the owners of Ringtail Solutions Group (including companies in the U.S., U.K., and Australia), in the sale of the affiliated group to FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE) for over $40,000,000.
• Represented eLink Communications, Inc., a telecommunications company, in its merger with Eureka Broadband Corporation.
• Represented 1eEurope, Ltd. in the $500 million acquisition of nine foreign companies throughout Europe, including the U.K., Germany, Netherlands, Spain, France, and Belgium.
• Represented a venture capital fund in its formation and financing, including its rollout of early stage entity incubators throughout the U.S.
• Represented numerous private technology companies in venture capital, angel, and other private equity financings and in senior debt financings.
• Representation of government contractor in reverse-IPO into publicly-held Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC^TM).
• Ongoing representation of a large publicly-held telecommunications company.