Profile

Professional Experience

  • Cascade Investment, L.L.C. and William H. Gates III ( 2000 to 2004)
  • Preston Gates & Ellis LLP (1990 to 2000)
  • U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. (1979 to 1982)

Professional Experience

Cascade Investment, L.L.C. and William H. Gates III (2000 to 2004)
General Counsel

Mr. Beatty was general counsel to the personal investment office of Bill Gates, which manages Mr. Gates’ personal investments and the investments of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Preston Gates & Ellis LLP (1990 to 2000)
Partner
Corporate/securities and Mergers & Acquisitions
Responsibilities:

  • Represented public and private companies in securities offerings, as well as mergers and other acquisitions (or dispositions)
  • Represented institutions in private equity funds

Representative Transactions:

  • Airspan Communications Corp.
    • Series C Preferred Stock
    • Initial public offering
  • SeaMED Corporation
    • Class D preferred stock
    • Initial public offering
    • Merger with Plexus Corporation
  • Labor Ready, Inc.
    • Private placement of convertible notes
    • Initial Public Offering
  • Microsoft Corporation
    • Public offering of 2.75% Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
    • Acquisitions
      • Vermeer Technologies, Inc.
      • The Mesa Group, Inc.
      • Netwise, Inc.
      • One Tree Software
      • Bendata, Inc.
      • Numinous Technologies
  • Venture Fund and Buy-out Fund Investments
    • CalPERS
    • Grove Street Advisors
    • Washington State Investment Board
    • University of Washington
    • Cascade Investment, L.L.C.
  • Tidyman’s Inc.
    • Strategic partnership with SUPERVALU, INC.
  • Packet Engines Inc.
    • Series B preferred stock
    • Sale to Alcatel, Inc.

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. (1979 to 1982)
-Division of Market Regulation, Attorney Advisor for Trading Practices Branch, rule making and interpretation of rules involving options markets, issuer repurchases and other market transactions
-Division of Corporation Finance, Attorney Advisor for Office of Small Business Policy, rule making and interpretation of Regulation D and other rules involving capital formation for small companies

Professorial Experience

Adjunct Professor, Seattle University School of Law, 2007-2008
(Corporation Finance and Securities Regulation)

Education

Georgetown University School of Law
L.L.M., 1981

University of Washington School of Law
J.D., 1979
Law Review
Order of the Coif

University of Idaho
B.S., 1976, Political Science, cum laude

Director Experience

2001 to 2004

Labor Ready, Inc., Tacoma, Washington (NYSE: LRW)
Compensation Committee, member

2002 to 2005

G.T. Development Corp., Tukwila, Washington
Compensation committee, chair

2004 to 2006

Fairfield Manufacturing Corp., Lafayette, Indiana
Compensation committee, chair

2004 to 2006

Issaquah Pony League (Nonprofit), Issaquah, Washington, Secretary

Bar Memberships

Washington
Washington, D.C. (inactive)

Activities And Honors

Chair, Securities Committee, Business Section
Washington State Bar Association (2002 to present)

Washington Law & Politics “Super Lawyer” for 2005
and 2006

Girls Basketball Coach, Issaquah Parks & Rec League
2003-2006

Girls Softball Coach, Issaquah Little League, 2006

Boys Pony League Baseball Coach, Issaquah, 2005

Boys Little League Baseball Coach, Issaquah, 2003-2004