Las Vegas Address
Duane Morris LLP
701 Bridger Avenue, Suite 670
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: 702.868.2600
Fax: 702.385.6862

P. Blake Allen practices in the area of corporate law with an emphasis on securities law and public company representation. Mr. Allen has significant experience in SEC reporting obligations of NYSE- and NASDAQ-traded companies. He works extensively on Sarbanes-Oxley issues and related corporate governance matters. He has represented issuers and venture capital investors in connection with public and private issuances of equity and debt. Mr. Allen has represented buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions transactions. He regularly advises boards of directors, audit committees and other board committees on matters such as disclosure issues, corporate governance, insider trading compliance and related party transactions, and acts as outside general counsel to public companies.

Mr. Allen was a law clerk for Chief Judge William J. Holloway, Jr. of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Mr. Allen is admitted to practice in California, Nevada, Colorado and Oklahoma. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and is a member of the State Bar of California. Mr. Allen is a 1990 graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Business (M.B.A.) and Vanderbilt University.

Representative Matters

Represented the issuer in preparation of a 144A offering memorandum and collateral documentation for private offering of $140 million of First Mortgage Notes for a $195 million project for a NYSE company.
Represented the issuer in preparation of the S-3 registration statement for registration of $25 million of shares placed by a NASDAQ SmallCap company.
Represented the issuer in preparation of the 144A offering memorandum and collateral documentation for offering of $120 million of Senior Notes for a NYSE company.
Represented the issuer in preparation of S-4 registration statement for an A/B exchange offer for $140 million of First Mortgage Notes issued by a NYSE company.
Represented the issuers and participated in preparation of the prospectus for the issuance of $120 million of 13% Senior Subordinated Notes for a NYSE company.
Represented NASDAQ NMS company in SEC investigation.
Represented one of the merging companies in preparation of S-3 Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus and the S-4 Registration Statement regarding the $1.15 billion merger of a NYSE company into another NYSE company.
Represented the issuers and participated in preparation of Form S-3 registration of $25 million PIPE for NASDAQ NMS company.
Represented the issuers and participated in preparation of Form SB-2 registration of $7 million PIPE for OTCBB company.
Draft and file all required Securities and Exchange Commission reports such as 8-Ks, 10-Qs, annual reports, proxy statements, Forms 3, 4 and 5 for various NYSE and NASDAQ companies. Draft confidential treatment requests and no-action letter requests.

Professional Activities

State Bar of Oklahoma
- Young Lawyers Division
-- Board of Directors, 1998-1999
-- Chairperson, Publications Committee, 1997-1999
-- American Bar Association Delegate, 1997, 1998
State Bar of Nevada
- Young Lawyers Division
-- Executive Council, 1996
Nevada American Inn of Court
- Member, 1993
The Center for American and International Law
- Research Fellow, 1995-present

Admissions

Oklahoma
Colorado
California
Nevada

Education

University of Oklahoma College of Business, M.B.A., 1990
University of Oklahoma College of Law, J.D., 1990
Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1986

Experience

Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2004-present
Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps
- Partner, 2002-2004
- Special Counsel, 2001-2002
Conner & Winters
- Partner, 1997-2001
- Associate, 1996-1997
Kummer Kaempfer Bonner & Renshaw, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Associate, 1993-1996
Chief Judge William J. Holloway, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit
- Law Clerk, 1990-1992

Board Memberships

Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) - San Diego

Honors and Awards

Listed in Who's Who in America, 2006-present
Listed in Who's Who in American Law, 1994-present
Listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1997-2002
Fellow of the American Bar Association, 2000-present
Member of MENSA

Selected Publications

Author, "Building a Framework, not a Foundation," chapter in Inside the Lines, April 2008
Co-Author, "Federal Court Dismisses SEC's Regulation FD Complaint Against Siebel Systems," The Corporate Board (Journal of Corporate Governance), March/April 2006, Vol XXVII No.157
"What Canadians Need to Know About Changes in United States Securities Law: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Initiatives of the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the State of California," Canadian International Lawyer, Vol. 5 No. 2, 2002

Selected Speaking Engagements

Speaker, "SEC Accounting and Financial Reporting," PLI/Executive Enterprise Institute, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California, April 2006
"Best Business Practices: Structuring and Managing Effective Internal Controls," National Business Institute (NBI), San Diego, California, 2006
"Best Practices in Managing Internal Investigations and Compliance Audits," Martindale-Hubbell Counsel to Counsel SuperForum, Chicago, Illinois, 2005
"Nuts and Bolts of Mergers & Acquisitions," Mission Bay Hyatt Hotel, San Diego State University Entreprenueurial Management Center, 2005
"Due Diligence After Sarbanes-Oxley," IPA Annual Convention, Phoenix, Arizona, 2004
Speaker, Business Divestiture Seminar, University of San Diego, 2001
Speaker, "Annual Corporate Law Update," State Bar of Oklahoma Annual Convention, 1998
"Disclosure Obligations of Public Corporations," Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), San Diego, California, 2004