Kimberley R. Anderson

Partner

Seattle

P: (206) 903-8803

F: (206) 260-8917

Ms. Anderson is a partner in Dorsey & Whitney’s public company practice group. Her practice specializes in the areas of corporate finance and securities. She assists clients with corporate governance compliance, Exchange Act reporting and Section 16 matters under the federal securities laws as well as private placements of debt and equity securities, initial and secondary public offerings and M&A. She counsels clients listed on the NYSE, Nasdaq and the TSE.

Ms. Anderson also has extensive experience in Canadian cross-border transactions and advises clients in a variety of industries, including oil and gas, mining, clean energy and manufacturing.

Representative Transactions

Ms. Anderson has represented clients in a wide variety of financing and M&A transactions and other matters, including representation of:

NovaGold Resources Inc. $175 million equity offerings
Talisman Energy Inc. $700 million public debt offering
U.S. Geothermal Inc. $8 million private placement of equity

Representative Clients

Ms. Anderson’s clients include: U.S. Geothermal Inc., NovaGold Resources Inc., Data I/O Corporation, Talisman Energy Inc., and Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.

Presentations

Ms. Anderson is a lecturer at various seminars and symposiums on corporate and securities law topics, including the following:

Here We Go Again! More Proxy Statement Rule Changes (with Tom Hearn and Jay Swanson of Dorsey & Whitney) January 2010
PIPES, Registered Directs and other Alternative Financing; ABA Spring Program, April 2006
The latest on PIPES; webcast in December 2005 on The Corporate Counsel.net
Impact of the Securities offering Reforms on Seasoned and Unseasoned Issuers; December 2005
New Form 8-K: The Time is Now! (with Tim Hearn, Amy Schneider and Gary Tygesson of Dorsey & Whitney and Laura Bednarski of U.S. Bancorp) August 2004
Internal Controls versus Disclosure Controls (at Internal Controls in Washington sponsored by Lorman Education Services) February 2004
Sarbanes-Oxley Act & Other Developments in SEC Reporting (with Ken Sam of Dorsey & Whitney, sponsored by the Chartered Accountants of British Columbia) June 2003 and February 2004
Recent Trends and Developments in Cross Border Transactions (with Jonathan Drance of Stikeman Elliott LLP and Andrew Foley of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP at the 6^th Annual Western Canadian Securities Forum) April 2003

Professional Activities

Member, Washington State Bar Association
Member, King County Bar Association

Attorney Articles

July 22, 2011	D.C. Circuit Court Vacates SEC's Proxy Access Rule
October 5, 2010	SEC Stays Effectiveness of Proxy Access
August 23, 2010	Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — Application to Foreign Private Issuers
July 27, 2010	Natural Resource Company Alert – Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
July 21, 2010	Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — Corporate Governance Provisions
December 29, 2009	The SEC’s Proxy Disclosure Enhancements: Analysis and Next Steps
December 16, 2009	SEC Adopts Proxy Disclosure Enhancements
February 21, 2008	SEC Proposes Amendments to Foreign Private Issuer Reporting