Biography: Corporate Governance

James Moloney is a partner in the Orange County office. He serves as co-chair of the firm's securities regulation and corporate governance practice group. He is also a member of the firm's corporate transactions practice group focusing primarily on securities, mergers and acquisitions, friendly and hostile tender offers, proxy contests, going-private transactions, and general corporate matters.

Mr Moloney advises a wide range of listed companies on reporting and other obligations under the securities laws, establishment of corporate compliance programmes, and compliance with corporate governance standards under the securities laws and stock exchange rules. He has advised companies in connection with SEC and other US regulatory investigations, as well as stock exchange proceedings, and works closely with partners in the firm's litigation practice group on securities-related lawsuits and internal investigations.

Mr Moloney was with the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, DC for six years before joining Gibson Dunn in June 2000. He served his last three years at the Commission as Special Counsel in the office of mergers & acquisitions in the division of corporation finance. In addition to reviewing merger transactions, Mr Moloney was the principal draftsman of Regulation M-A, a comprehensive set of rules relating to takeovers and shareholder communications, adopted by the Commission in October 1999.

Mr Moloney serves as the chair of the proxy statements and business combinations subcommittee of the federal regulation of securities section of the American Bar Association. In addition, he is a board member with the Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance at Cal State Fullerton.