James Clough
Partner
Email: j.clough@qwllp.com
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures.
Admitted: 1976, New York; 1981, California
Law School: Albany Law School of Union University, J.D., 1975; New York University School of Law, LL.M., Corporate Law, 1979
College: Siena College, B.S., 1972
Member: New York State and American (Member: Section of Business Law; Federal Regulation of Securities Committee; Mergers and Acquisitions Committee; Subcommittee on Securities Registration) Bar Associations; State Bar of California (Member, Business Law Section); District of Columbia Bar.
Biography: James Clough is a Partner of Quinlivan Wexler LLP and chairs the firm's Corporate group. He has more than 25 years of experience as a corporate lawyer representing clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to middle market companies, emerging growth companies and entrepreneurs. Jim was previously a Partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He chaired the Corporate department of the firm's Orange County office and was founding Partner of the firm's Silicon Valley office. Before joining Pillsbury, Jim was a Partner of the Southern California law firm, Kindel and Anderson. He began his career with the Wall Street law firm, Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine. Contributing Author: American Bar Association's February 2005 Comment Letter to the SEC on Securities Offering Reform, Release No. 33-8501 (November 3, 2004). Presenter: "Ethics in Investigations: The Perils of In-House Counsel Standing Between the Government and Their Company," Association of Corporate Counsel, San Francisco, California (January 2009); "Securities Offering Reform and the General Counsel as Gatekeeper," Bay Area General Counsel Group, San Francisco, California (March 2007); "Controlling Costs in Defending Government Investigations," IQPC Government Investigations Conference, Washington, D.C. (October 2006); with Kevin Ryan, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, "Corporate Governance," National Hispanic Bar Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California (September 2006); with Kevin Ryan, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, "Government Investigations," Association of Corporate Counsel Spring MCLE Conference, San Francisco, California (March 2006).
Transactions: Jim's representative transactions include representing Wells Fargo in its venture investment in eCredit; St. John in international licensing for its fashion eyewear line; London-based Cookson Group in its technology joint venture in China; Tokyo Electron in its acquisition from Sony of a semiconductor division; Orange County plastics manufacturer Stewart-Walker in its sale to a portfolio company in ING Equity Partners; LA-based furniture manufacturer Harpers in its sale to Kimball; H-P in its $80 million sale of an internet division to AboveNet; online insurance agency Answer Financial in its acquisition from Capital One and Citigroup, its corporate partnering with CitiMortgage and Primerica and its sale to parent of Esurance; Verizon Wireless in its outsourcing of a division to Accenture; PruchasePro in its $50 million IPO, $275 million follow-on offering and corporate partnering with AOL, Office Depot and Sprint; and Credit Suisse in its underwriting of eStamp's $135 million IPO.
Born: Amsterdam, New York
ISLN: 908332234
