Robert J. Wild

Bob Wild is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice, focusing on the representation of publicly traded issuers in day-to-day federal securities law disclosure and compliance matters; board corporate governance matters; NYSE and NASDAQ initial and continued listing compliance; follow-on and secondary underwritten offerings of equity; Rule 144A high yield offerings and related registered exchange offerings; merger and annual meeting proxy statements; annual and quarterly periodic and current reports; Section 16 compliance; and Rule 10b5-1 plans and Rule 144 matters.

In addition, Mr. Wild also represents buyers and sellers in public and private acquisitions and divestitures of stock and assets. Mr. Wild’s client representations have included retailers, manufacturers, public accounting firms, consulting firms, wireless telecommunications providers, gaming companies, credit card issuers and bank holding companies.

Mr. Wild’s notable securities offerings include:

    Associated Banc-Corp (NASDAQ GS: ASBC)

• $500,000,000 underwritten offering of common stock, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC sole bookrunning manager
• $525,000,000 of senior preferred stock and related common stock warrants to the United States Department of Treasury in connection with the TARP Capital Purchase Program
• $100,000,000 InterNotes^® subordinated notes, Joint Lead Managers and Lead Agents: Banc of America Securities LLC and Incapital LLC
• $2 billion senior and subordinated bank note program of Associated Bank, NA, a wholly owned subsidiary, agented by Credit Suisse First Boston, Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch & Co.
• Negotiated several accelerated share repurchase plans with various global investment banks and related Form S-3 registration of common stock in connection with net share settlements

     iPCS, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IPCS)

• Shelf takedown underwritten secondary offering of common stock for affiliates of Apollo Management LP
• Rule 144A offering of $475 million of first and second lien senior secured high yield notes
• Offer to purchase and consent solicitation for $165 million and $125 million high yield notes
• Acquisition of Horizon PCS, Inc. (Pink Sheets: HZPS) and related Form S-4 and joint proxy statement/prospectus
• Rule 144A offering of $165 million high yield notes and resulting Form S-4 for exchange offer
• Rule 144A offering of $300 million high yield notes and common stock warrants and resulting Form S-4 exchange offer and Form
  S-1 shelf offering
• $120 million convertible participating preferred stock investment by The Blackstone Group and Trust Company of the West

    People’s Bank (NASDAQ GS: PBCT)

• Tender offer of approximately $255 million of subordinated notes

Mr. Wild’s notable mergers and acquisitions transactions include:

    GlobalNetXchange, LLC

• Formation of Agentrics LLC, one of the world’s largest retail technology firms offering online auctions and strategic sourcing, in a merger of equals transaction with WorldWide Retail Exchange

    Huron Consulting Group Inc. (NASDAQ GS: HURN)

• Acquisition of Glass & Associates, Inc., a turnaround and restructuring firm, in stock purchase valued at approximately $30 million, plus potential multi-year earn-outs payments
• Acquisition of Aaxis Technologies, Inc., an electronic data discovery consultant, in a stock purchase valued at approximately $7.8 million, plus potential multi-year earn-outs payments

    iPCS, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IPCS)

• Sale to AirGate PCS, Inc. in $900 million enterprise value transaction

    Sears Roebuck & Company (NASDAQ GS: SHLD)

• Sale of NTB National Tire and Battery business with 226 retail stores and related transition services to TBC Corporation (NASDAQ:TBCC) for approximately $260 million
• Sales of several separate receivables portfolios of charged-off and Chapter 13 private label and general purpose credit card receivables with aggregate face principal of $2.5 billion for approximately $178 million
• Sales of several separate private label credit card receivables portfolios and transition servicing and program agreements

The representations described above were prior to Mr. Wild joining the firm.

Mr. Wild is the author of “Designing an Effective Securities Compliance Program,” Vol. 10, Corporate Compliance Series, Thomson/West, November 2009 (for information and to order, please click here).

Mr. Wild is a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago, and the Board of Managers and the Planned Giving Committee of the Robert R. McCormick Club of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees and Audit Committee of Chicago Waldorf School.

Mr. Wild is a member of the American Bar Association, Section of Business Law; the Chicago Bar Association, Federal Securities Law and Financial Institutions Committees; the Illinois State Bar Association, Corporations, Securities and Business Law Section Council, of which he served as chairman from 2005-2006; the National Association of Corporate Directors – Chicago Chapter; and the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals – Corporate Practices and Securities Law Committees; Chicago Chapter Advisory Committee.

Mr. Wild joined the firm in September 2007 and was previously a partner with Mayer Brown LLP. He is listed in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Wild earned his B.B.A. in 1983 from Loyola University Chicago, his M.S.T. in 1987 from DePaul University and his J.D. in 1989 from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he served as the executive editor for the Loyola Consumer Law Review. He is admitted to practice in Illinois (1989).