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Mr Alan L Dye
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Mr. Dye is a partner in the Corporate and Securities Group, concentrating in federal securities law.His practice involves representation of issuers and underwriters in connection with public and private offerings of both debt and equity securities.In addition to his transactional work, Mr. Dye advises clients with respect to various obligations and restrictions arising under the federal securities laws, including general disclosure requirements and insider trading restrictions.
Mr. Dye received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Emory University in 1975.He received his law degree in 1978, graduating second in his class from the University of Georgia, where he also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Georgia Law Review.Following law school, he was appointed to serve as a law clerk for Judge Ellsworth A. Van Graafeiland of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.Upon completing his clerkship in 1979, Mr. Dye entered private practice in Atlanta, where he was engaged primarily in securities and other commercial litigation.In 1982, Mr. Dye joined the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served for two years in the Division of Corporation Finance and then for two years as Special Counsel to the Chairman of the agency.He left the Commission to join Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. in 1986.
Mr. Dye is an active member of the American Bar Association and serves as Co-Chairman of the Securities, Commodities and Exchange Committee of its Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section.He is a frequent lecturer at professional seminars and is a former adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.He has written extensively on various issues under the federal securities laws, including his co-authorship (with Hogan & Hartson partner Peter J. Romeo) of the Section 16 Treatise and Reporting Guide (Executive Press, Inc. 1994), the Comprehensive Section 16 Outline (Executive Press, Inc. 2000), the Section 16 Forms and Filings Handbook (Executive Press, Inc. 2000), and The SEC's New Insider Trading Rules, 34 Rev. Sec.& Comm.Reg 1 (January 10, 2001).Mr. Dye, together with Mr. Romeo, also manages the content of Section16.net, a web site devoted to developments under and compliance with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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Mr. Dye is a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia, Georgia and New York.