Alan W. Becker

Profile

Alan Becker is a partner in the Business Services and Public Offerings and Securities Regulation Groups, assisting clients with many types of corporate and financial transactions, including forming business entities and structuring their ownership arrangements, raising capital from third parties, and buying, selling and combining businesses. A summa cum laude graduate of Indiana University Maurer School of Law - Bloomington, Mr. Becker served as a note editor of Volume 56 of the Indiana Law Journal. During his career, Mr. Becker has helped companies raise over $7.4 billion in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, has assisted in the purchase and sale of companies worth over $1.1 billion and has worked on the organizational documents of hundreds of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and other entities. Mr. Becker also assisted in drafting legislation to allow the creation of limited liability companies in Indiana and serves on the Indiana Business Law Survey Commission, advising the state legislature on laws affecting Indiana businesses and proposing legislative changes. He has been a practicing attorney and a member of the firm since 1981, and a partner since 1987.

Honors / Awards

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in Corporate Governance and Compliance area (2007-2013) and in Banking, Corporate Governance & Compliance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Funds, Securities and Capital Markets Law and Structured Finance areas (2009, 2011-2013); Best Lawyers'® 2013 Indianapolis Corporate Governance Lawyer of the Year; Indiana Super Lawyers® 2010 (Securities & Corporate Finance); AV® Peer Review rated by Martindale-Hubbell; National Registry of Who's Who® (life member); United States Junior Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Chapter (vice president, 1996); Order of the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa

Representative Matters

• Represented the founders of a bio-energy company in an offering to raise seed capital
• Represented a real estate developer in the formation of an investment limited partnership and syndication of an office building
• Represented a public company in numerous offerings of common stock, preferred stock and public debt
• Represented a bank holding company in the acquisition of several commercial banks and thrift institutions throughout the Midwest
• Represented the founders of a venture capital fund in the preparation of fund documents
• Represented a multiple franchisee in private offerings to raise expansion capital
• Represented the owners of a company being formed as a woman-owned business enterprise
• Represented the owners of a business in a restructuring to allow venture financing
• Represented an investment pool in raising equity financing and then investing in multiple low-income housing credit partnerships
• Represented the owner of a business in a reorganization to permit granting of profits interests to employees

Appearances / Publications

Mr. Becker has lectured on numerous aspects of business transaction and financing practice for the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, as well as for bar associations at seminars and conferences, and has authored various articles in legal and professional publications, on topics including:

• Investment securities under the Uniform Commercial Code
• Hot Tips in Securities Law
• Choosing Business Entities
• Limited Liability Companies
• Avoiding Problems under Federal and State Securities Laws
• Partnerships and Limited Partnership

Appointments / Memberships

Indiana University Mauer School of Law (adjunct professor, 2012); About Special Kids (vice-president & secretary, 2010, board of directors); American Bar Association; Indiana State Bar Association; Indianapolis Bar Association; former member of Indiana Securities Division Advisory Committee, Limited Liability Company Task Force and Drafting Committee, Indiana Business Law Survey Commission, and Indiana Jaycees Chapter Management