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Bruce F. Dravis
Partner
Sacramento
Contact Info:
Email: Send an email
Phone: (916) 444-1000
Fax: (916) 444-2100
Practice Areas:
Corporate
Securities
Mergers and Acquisitions
Intellectual Property
Additional Areas of Expertise
Corporate Finance, Joint Ventures
Bio
Bruce
Dravis provides clients with pragmatic, problem-solving advice on transactions
(primarily investment and M&A) and corporate governance matters. In addition
to representing publicly traded corporations, privately held corporations, and
investors in a range of industries, he writes and speaks extensively on corporate
governance and developing companies, particularly venture capital backed companies.
His clients are active in a variety of industries, including technology, energy,
finance, and real estate.
Clients
who are direct, fact based, and action oriented appreciate that Bruce provides
them with straight forward advice and creative solutions. For example, he pioneered
the use of the California fairness hearing process to permit an ESOP owned company
to acquire another ESOP owned company using stock rather than cash. In negotiating
mergers, acquisitions, and investments for his clients, he identifies where
both sides have complementary objectives that can form the basis for a transaction.
His
securities law experience includes initial public offerings, registered secondary
offerings, Rule 144A offerings, private placements, and ongoing SEC disclosure
issues, including corporate governance compliance.
Before
joining Downey Brand, Bruce served as General Counsel for a publicly traded
semiconductor corporation that was acquired by Intel for $2 billion.
His
first book, The Role of Independent Directors After Sarbanes-Oxley,
was published by the American Bar Association in 2007. His second book, Your
Billable Life, was published by Kaplan in 2008. He also contributed a chapter
on business planning to the Emerging Company Guidebook, published by
the American Bar Association.
He
is former co-chair of the California State Bar corporations committee, and serves
on the ABA subcommittee on corporate governance. He has been active on the boards
of multiple Sacramento community organizations.
| Education: |
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Boston University School of Law; Boston, Massachusetts (J.D., 1985) |
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California State University, Sacramento; Sacramento, California (B.A., 1975) |
Admitted to Practice in:
California
| Articles: |
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More Shell Games (The Daily Recorder, October 17, 2005) |
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Katrina As An M&A -- 'Material Adverse Change' (The Daily Recorder, September 16, 2005) |
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Disney Opinion Offers Light, Heat (The Daily Recorder, August 15, 2005) |
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SOX 404 Still Costly (The Daily Recorder, July 26, 2005) |
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Option Expensing and Unintended Consequences (The Daily Recorder, June 21, 2005) |
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Audit Letters No Longer Routine (The Daily Recorder, May 11, 2005) |
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The Attorney As Corporate Director (NACD Directors Monthly, March 2005) |
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SEC: Google Attorney "Caused" Violation (The Daily Recorder, March 9, 2005) |
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Sorting Out, Sarbanes-Oxley (The Daily Recorder, February 15, 2005) |
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Options: Wrong Premise, Wrong Result (The Daily Recorder, January 18, 2005) |
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It's Not Politics, It's Business (The Daily Recorder, December 14, 2004) |
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SEC Proposes Significant Public Offering Changes (The Daily Recorder, November 12, 2004) |
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Pay to Public Company Execs Needs Prompt Disclosure (The Daily Recorder, October 18, 2004) |
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Buyer's Lawyer Sued for Fraud (The Daily Recorder, September 16, 2004) |
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Real Time Disclosure Really Arrives (The Daily Recorder, August 16, 2004) |
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A General Counsel's Disaster Story (The Daily Recorder, June 21, 2004) |
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Expensing Options Is Bad Math (The Daily Recorder, May 17, 2004) |
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Don't stop options for a 'foolish consistency' (Sacramento Business Journal, April 30, 2004) |
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Legislate Quickly, Repent at Leisure (The Daily Recorder, March 15, 2004) |
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Sarbanes Affects Private Firms (The Daily Recorder, February 23, 2004) |
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Facsimile Signatures Make Filing Easier (The Daily Recorder, January 2, 2004) |
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Two Cheers for Shareholder Democracy (The Daily Recorder, December 15, 2003) |
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Ideas Aren't Products; Products Aren't Companies (The Daily Recorder, November 17, 2003) |
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'Win-win' When You Buy, Sell Small Businesses (The Daily Recorder, October 20, 2003) |
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Businesses Must Avoid 'Shell' Games (The Daily Recorder, August 25, 2003) |
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Level One's big IPO: 10 years later, 5 lessons (Sacramento Business Journal, August 22, 2003) |
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Investors Find Divorce Complicates Stock Options (The Daily Recorder, July 28, 2003) |
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Stock Options Suddenly Becoming Contentious Political Item (The Daily Recorder, June 16, 2003) |
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New SEC Rule Eases Trading for Insiders, Sort of (The Daily Recorder, September 29, 2000) |
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