David Chalk practices in the Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC offices of the firm. He practices corporate and securities law with special emphasis on public and private mergers and acquisitions, public offerings of equity and debt securities including IPOs and follow-on public offerings and Rule 144A offerings, tender offers, going private transactions, PIPE transactions, venture capital investments, and other private placements of securities. He also advises public companies on disclosure and corporate governance issues, shareholder relations, and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., and the major stock exchanges. Mr. Chalk began his career in the Division of Corporation Finance at the SEC.

Mr. Chalk has served as counsel in more than 75 public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, both on behalf of issuers, underwriters, and placement agents and investors. He has acted as counsel to both buyers and sellers in more than 50 merger and acquisition transactions on behalf of public and private companies.

The respected English research firm Chambers & Partners cites Mr. Chalk in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as an “Up and Coming” lawyer, commenting that he is known for “great communication, hard work and follow up," and that he "is establishing himself as a major player in securities transactions, in particular public and private M&A and [securities] offerings."

Among his securities transactions:

• Cumulus Media Inc.: $227 million follow-on public offering of common stock; Underwriters: Deutsche Bank Securities, Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., CIBC World Markets and Morgan Stanley.
• Visicu, Inc.: $110 million initial public offering of common stock; underwriters: Morgan Stanley and Wachovia.
• East West Bancorp, Inc.: $30 million private placement (PIPE) of common stock and additional investment rights; placement agent: RBC Capital Markets Corporation.
• Forward Air Corporation: $69.4 million follow-on public offering of common stock; underwriters: Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities, and BB&T Capital Markets.
• Morris Publishing Group, LLC: $300 million Rule 144A offering of senior subordinated notes; underwriter: JP Morgan.
• TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.: $15 million private placement of convertible debentures and $6 million private placement (PIPE) of common stock; placement agent: Roth Capital Partners.
• BearingPoint, Inc.: Electronic stock option exchange tender offer to over 8,000 employee-option holders.
• Point Therapeutics, Inc.: $13.5 million private placement (PIPE) of common stock and warrants; placement agent: RBC Capital Markets Corporation.
• Vineyard National Bancorp: $16.2 million private placement (PIPE) of common stock and warrants; placement agent: RBC Capital Markets Corporation.
• Midland Financial Holdings, Inc.: $60 million Rule 144A offering of trust preferred securities; underwriters: Merrill Lynch & Co. and RBC Capital Markets Corporation.
• Municipal Mortgage & Equity LLC: $76 million follow-on public offering of common shares; underwriters: RBC Capital Markets Corporation, Merrill Lynch & Co. and UBS Warburg.
• Municipal Mortgage & Equity LLC: $54.8 million follow-on public offering of common shares (bought deal); underwriters: RBC Capital Markets Corporation and Legg Mason Wood Walker, Incorporated.

Among his merger and acquisition transactions:

• Visicu, Inc.: $430 million sale of health care information technology and clinical solutions company.
• US Vision, Inc.: $30 million management-led leveraged buyout in a going private transaction.
• Sterling Chemicals, Inc.: $860 million acquisition by leveraged buyout fund in a going private transaction.
• Yorkshire Global Restaurants, Inc.: $360 million acquisition by Yum! Brands.
• TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.: $19 million acquisition of the Enterprise Mobility Systems Division of Aether Systems, Inc.
• RWD Technologies, Inc.: $33 million controlling stockholder-led going private transaction.
• Keller Group plc and Hayward Baker, Inc.: $26 million acquisition of McKinney Drilling Company.
• Educate, Inc.: $6.3 million acquisition of Progressus Therapy, Inc.
• Cendant Mortgage Company: $7.3 million acquisition of a subsidiary of Accessity, Inc.
• Evergreen Assurance Inc.: $8 million Series A preferred stock venture financing.

Felvétel

• Maryland

Tagságok

• American Bar Association, Member of the Business Law Section, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions, Committee on Corporate Governance, Ad Hoc Committee on Audit Responses and Committee on State Regulation of Securities.
• Maryland State Bar Association, Member of the Section of Business Law and the Securities Law Committee.

Szemináriumok

• Mr. Chalk serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he teaches securities regulation
• Presenter, "Securities Law: The Basics and the Best Practices," Maryland Institute of Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (MICPEL), February 18, 2004

Civil és jótékonysági tevékenység

• Member, Board of Directors of the American Red Cross - Central Maryland Chapter