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Edward B. Whittemore practices in the areas of general corporate law, federal and state securities regulation and mergers and acquisitions. In the securities law area, Mr. Whittemore has represented issuers and investors in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities and has advised securities professionals (broker-dealers, investment advisers, and their personnel) on registration, reporting and other compliance matters. He also assists public company clients with ongoing securities regulatory matters, including periodic reporting with the SEC, corporate disclosure, compliance with stock exchange listing standards, short-swing and insider trading matters, proxy regulation and deregistration issues. Mr. Whittemore has represented buyers and sellers in merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions and has advised directors and officers with respect to their fiduciary obligations under state corporate laws. He also advises clients with respect to the formation and management of privately-held business entities. Mr. Whittemore has authored or co-authored a number of articles and book chapters on topics including insider trading, securities offerings, financial privacy issues and electronic financial services.

Publications

• Vartanian, Ledig and Bruneau, 21st Century Money, Banking and Commerce, National Automated Clearing House Association (October 1998) (author of chapter on privacy and co-author of chapters on various electronic banking and commerce issues in 600-page legal reference work).
• Harvey L. Pitt, Karl A. Groskaufmanis and Edward B. Whittemore, Misappropriating Certainty from the Securities Markets: A Practitioner's Primer on the O'Hagan Decision, 2 NORTH CAR. BANK. INSTIT. 71 (April 1998) (previously appeared as Pitt and Groskaufmanis, "The Supreme Court Has Upheld the Misappropriation Theory, But How Far the SEC Will Take the Ruling is Anything But Clear," NAT'L L.J., Aug. 4, 1997, at B4).
• "Recent Developments in Internet Securities Offerings," Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 1998 (Harvey L. Pitt, Mark J. Dorsey, and Edward B. Whittemore).
• 'The Management of Risks Created by Internet-Initiated Value Transfers' Report for The Internet Council of the National Automated Clearing House Association, January 1998 (Robert H. Ledig, Thomas P. Vartanian, Edward B. Whittemore, Peter H. Schwartz, and co-authors Lynn Bruneau, Joel Lanz and Peter Wayner).
• "Supreme Court Invalidates Government Regulation of Indecent' Internet Content," Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report, Vol. I, No. 8, (July/August 1997) (Thomas P. Vartanian, Robert H. Ledig, David L. Ansell, Edward B. Whittemore and Peter H. Schwartz).
• ABA Task Force on Stored Value Cards, A Commercial Lawyer's Take on the Electronic Purse: An Analysis of Commercial Law Issues Associated with Stored-Value Cards and Electronic Money, 52 Bus. Law 653 (February 1997) (Task Force member).
• Richard S. Smith, Jr. and Edward B. Whittemore, 'Cooperation Counts' - The Message of the Commission's Recent Section 21(a) Report. Met. Corp. Counsel (January 2002), at 15.