Helen Woodyard Brown joined Bass, Berry & Sims PLC as an associate in the firm's Corporate and Securities Practice Area in September 2002. Helen’s practice focuses on public equity offerings for both issuers and underwriters, as well as counseling corporations regarding compliance with the registration and disclosure requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission. She also works with clients on a variety of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, private placements of securities and corporate governance.
Representative Matters:
- Issuer’s counsel for follow-on public offerings for various NYSE-listed Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and a Nasdaq traded business development company involving aggregate proceeds of approximately $328 million during 2009.
- Underwriters' counsel for follow-on public offerings of various REITs and publicly traded business development companies during 2009 involving aggregate proceeds of $140 million. Underwriters represented included Robert W. Baird, Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., BB&T Capital Markets, Janney Montgomery Scott, Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., and Madison Williams and Company LLC.
- Underwriters' counsel for at-the-market offering program of up to $50 million of common shares of a NYSE-listed REIT during 2009.
- Issuer’s counsel with respect to at-the-market offering programs established for various publicly traded REITS.
- Representation of special committee of board of directors of Quadra Realty Trust, Inc. in connection with acquisition by Hypo Real Estate Group in transaction valued at $650 million in 2008.
- Underwriters' counsel for public offerings of various publicly traded business development companies involving aggregate proceeds of $430 million during 2008 and 2007. Underwriters included Deutsche Bank Securities, JPMorgan, Friedman Billings Ramsey, Robert W. Baird, Ferris Baker Watts and Morgan Keegan.
- Issuer’s counsel in $60 million initial public offering of a Raleigh, North Carolina based business development company during 2007 and related rollup of Small Business Investment Company owned by 34 community banks.
- Underwriters' counsel for initial public offerings of various REITs involving aggregate proceeds of $560 million during 2005, resulting in Bass, Berry & Sims being recognized by The American Lawyer as the #4 nationally-ranked underwriters counsel for REIT offerings in 2005. Lead managing underwriters included JP Morgan, UBS Securities and Wachovia Securities.
- Underwriters' counsel for initial public offerings of various closed-end investment companies involving aggregate proceeds over $ 1 billion between 2003 to 2006.
- Representation of National Commerce Financial Corporation in connection with merger with SunTrust Banks, Inc. in transaction valued at $7 billion.
Helen graduated summa cum laude in May 2002 from the University of Arkansas School of Law, where she was the president of Phi Delta Phi and note and comment editor for the Arkansas Law Review. Helen graduated cum laude from the University of Arkansas in 1999, where she was an American National Scholar and in the National Dean's and the University of Arkansas Dean’s Lists. Additionally, Helen was named a Fulbright Senior Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board.
Helen is a member of the American, Arkansas, Tennessee and Memphis Bar Associations and National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. She is admitted to practice in Arkansas and Tennessee.
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