Wallace E. Brockhoff

• Advise AMC Entertainment in sale of Hoyts General Cinema South America, Inc. joint venture.
• US securities counsel for several reporting companies.
• Outside general counsel to several pet food manufacturing companies.
• Advise MGP Ingredients in sale of pet treat business.
• Advise Ash Grove Cement in sale of lime plant.
• Oversee pet food product recall
• Advise Agrex in purchase of joint venture interest in a grain exporter.
• Multiple biofuels securities offerings and general corporate matters.
• Advise AMC Entertainment in all aspects of acquisition of GC Companies, Inc., out of Chapter 11 for $167 million.
• Advise AMC Entertainment in connection with $250 million equity investment by Apollo Investment Funds.
• Advise Gear for Sports in $210 million refinancing transaction.
• Advise AMC Entertainment in secured credit facility.
• General outside counsel to several technology companies.
• Advise manufacturing client in connection with debt workout leading to eventual sale.
• $50 million Rule 144A note offering and $45 million Senior Credit Agreement for Butler Manufacturing.
• Advisor to Sprint regarding a number of strategic technology alliances.
• Strategic alliance between movietickets.com, AOL Time Warner and Ticketmaster providing for joint access to online movie ticket purchasing.
• Affiliation agreements between Sprint PCS and various independent companies to build out Sprint PCS digital network at a cost over $1 billion.
• Draft and file S-4 Registration Statements for at least five transactions.
• Roll-up transactions valued at $20 million involving NovaMed Eyecare Management, a physician practice management company.
• Over 25 Hart-Scott-Rodino Act filings.
• Other venture capital financings, stock offerings, private placements and conventional financing transactions.
• Technology licensing and strategic equity investments involving a leading research university.
• Formation of several new generation agricultural cooperatives.
• Acquisition of Borden fluid milk business for $425 million, including resolution of antitrust concerns.
• Mergers with Dairymen, Inc., AMPI, MMI and Western Milk Producers that have resulted in client becoming the largest dairy cooperative in the USA.
• Creation of a finance affiliate involving two classes of debt and four classes of equity totaling $200 million raised in Rule 144A offerings.
• Negotiation of “Planet Movies,” joint venture with Planet Hollywood to develop entertainment complexes worldwide.
• Venture capital financing and supply alliance between Three Dog Bakery and PETsMART.
• Acquisition of Southern Foods Group for $105 million and formation of operating joint venture.
• Acquisition of Adohr Farms for $65 million and formation of operating joint venture.
• $16 million secondary stock offering for Applebee’s International.
• Dutch tender offer stock repurchase totaling $30 million.
• Purchases of block of life insurance business totaling over $25 billion in face value.
• Acquisitions of Whitman’s Chocolates.

Court Memberships

• England and Wales
• Kansas
• Missouri

Honors

• Selected to Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers, 2011
• Order of the Coif
• Moot Court Competition Best Oralist
• Member, Kansas Law Review

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Professional Affiliations

• Board President of Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired
• The Missouri Bar
• Kansas Bar Association
• The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• The American Bar Association
• The Law Society of England and Wales

Publications

• Co-author, Agricultural Cooperatives, Farm Law (MoBar 3rd ed. 2006)
• Author, Strategic Alliances Offer Chances to Grow, Diversify, The Law Pages, Kansas City Business Journal, November, 1997
• Author, Income Tax and the Purebred Breeder, Polled Hereford World, February, 1993
• Co-Author, Farm Cooperatives and Associations, Missouri Farm Law, (Missouri Bar, 2nd ed., 1993)

Presentations

• Presenter on Doing Business Internationally, Manufacturing Summit sponsored by Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, October 2006
• Presented on International Joint Ventures and Alliances, International Trade Council, June 2007
• Panel Member, Legal Roundtable, Global Finance Magazine, May, 2002