Hinkle Elkouri Law Firm L.L.C.

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8621 East 21st Street North, Suite 200
Wichita, KS 67206 (map) (316) 631-3115 isnyder@hinklaw.com     vCard
Ipek Candan Snyder   Member

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Ms. Snyder is a licensed attorney in the states of New York and Kansas, and she has practiced law between 1998 and 2003 at the New York City law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Ipek joined Hinkle Elkouri in March 2004 as of counsel, where she has been practicing in corporate and securities law. Ipek has significant experience with respect to mergers and acquisitions; purchases, sales and dispositions of assets; corporate governance and compliance; public offerings and private placements of securities; securities laws compliance; and restructurings and reorganizations of entities. She is fluent in English, French, and Turkish.



•    Brooklyn Law School, J.D., summa cum laude, 1998
    o     Brooklyn Law Review, associate managing editor
    o    International Business Law fellow
    o    Dean’s Achievement Scholarship
    o    Samuel Bernstein Memorial Scholarship
    o    CALI Excellence for the Future Award – Constitutional Law
•    New York University, B.A., Economics with a minor in French, cum laude, 1994
    o    Trustee’s Scholarship
    o    Omicron Delta Epsilon, International
    o    Honor Society in Economics Honors Scholar
•    Kansas Supreme Court
•    New York Supreme Court
•    United States District Court, District of Kansas
•    American Bar Association
•    Kansas Bar Association
•    New York Bar Association
•    Wichita Bar Association
•    Brooklyn Law School, trustee (2001-2002)
•    Represents Petrohawk Energy Corporation, a publicly traded energy company based in Houston, Texas. In connection with M&A transactions, divestitures of assets, offerings, corporate governance matters, SEC filings and other corporate and securities matters. Represented Petrohawk in connection with: $2 billion merger with KCS Energy, Inc. (July 2006); $775 million high-yield debt offering (July 2006); $300 million acquisition of stock of Winwell Resources, Inc. and assets of Redley Company (January 2006); $190 million private placement of common stock (February 2006); $425 million acquisition of Wynn-Crosby (2004); and implementation of corporate governance system (2004).
•    Represented PHAWK, LLC, a privately-held Houston, Texas based energy company, in its 2004 acquisition of $60 million in stock and securities from Beta Oil and Gas, Inc., a publicly traded company (2004).
•    Represented Chevron Corporation in its acquisition of Texaco for $42 billion (2000).
•    Represented Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in connection with its $12.5 billion cash-and-stock offer to acquire the Hershey Foods Corporation in an auction initiated by Hershey’s controlling shareholder, the Hershey Trust Corporation (2002).
•    Represented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. in connection with the sale of its 20 percent ownership interest in the Bravo cable television network to NBC for $250 million (2002).
•    Represented Procter & Gamble in its acquisition of Iams, a pet food company, for over $1 billion (1999).
•    Represented CGI Group Inc., a Canadian IT service firm, in connection with its $450 million merger with IMRglobal Corp., a U.S. information technology services company (2001).
•    Represented Northrop Grumman in connection with its sale of certain assets to ITT Corporation (2003).
•    Represented GE Capital in multiple private equity transactions (1998-2001).
•    Represented AEA Investors Inc., a private equity investment fund, in multiple transactions, including in connection with its investments in privately-held entities and in connection with the fund’s corporate restructuring (2000-2003).
•    Represented Goldman Sachs (and related entities including Goldman Sachs Capital Partners) in multiple transactions in connection with its investments in privately-held entities, and in connection with its capacity as investment advisor to the acquirer or the target in public mergers and acquisitions (1998-2003).
•    Represented Merrill Lynch in multiple transactions as initial purchasers in connection with Rule 144A offerings by various issuers (1998-2000).
•    Represented Lazard Freres in multiple transactions in connection with its capacity as investment advisor to the acquirer or the target in public mergers and acquisitions (1998-2001).
•    Represented Merck & Company, Inc. in connection with the spin-off of its subsidiary, Medco Health Solutions (2003).
•    Represented various U.S. and Canadian corporations, including The Kroger Co. and Jo-Ann Stores, Inc., in connection with their Rule 144A debt offerings (1998 – 2003).
•    Represented various privately-held entities in connection with the private placement of their preferred stock (1998-2003).
•    Represented various investors in connection with their investments in privately-held entities (1998-2003).
•    Represented NTL Incorporated in connection with its public rights offering (2003).
•    Represented Methanex Corporation, a Canadian corporation, in its secondary public offering of common shares in 2003, and its public offering of debt securities, along with a consent solicitation in connection with its then outstanding debt securities (2002).
•    Represented Gilman Paper Company in connection with its internal reorganization, including a series of mergers (1998-1999).
•    Represented various public companies in connection with a review of their existing defensive posture and related recommendations.