Mr. Bielema is a partner in the litigation department, concentrating on securities and corporate litigation, as well as commercial litigation. He has had significant experience representing clients in the defense of securities fraud class actions, including underwriters, issuers and individual defendants. In addition to his experience with securities fraud class actions, Mr. Bielema also has extensive experience defending shareholder derivative actions, dissenter's rights proceedings, tender offer litigation, SEC investigations, bondholder litigation, director and officer liability litigation, adversary proceedings in bankruptcy court and many other forms of corporate litigation. Mr. Bielema is an experienced commercial litigator and is on the editorial board of the American Bar Association's Business and Commercial Litigation Committee. He also has experience with jury trials and with both binding arbitration and mediation. Mr. Bielema has been in Powell Goldstein's securities and corporate litigation department since his graduation from law school in 1993.

In 2007, Mr. Bielema was elected as a board member of the Litigation Section of the Atlanta Bar Association. He is the co-founder of the Securities and Corporate Litigation sub-section of the Atlanta Bar Association's Litigation Section, and serves as that organization's Co-chair. He is also the Co-chair of the American Bar Association's Corporate and Securities Litigation sub-committee of the Litigation Section's Commercial and Business Litigation Section. He is also very active in the American Bar Association's Litigation Section Securities Litigation Committee. He has served since 2005 on the Executive Committee of the Federal Bar Association's Atlanta Chapter, and also as the secretary of that organization. He frequently presents on issues relating to key securities litigation and director and officer liability issues.

Mr. Bielema has been quoted on issues relating to securities litigation and regulation in many publications including the Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The National Law Journal, Securities Law 360, The Toronto Star, Lawyers Weekly, Bank and Lenders Liability Reporter, Andrew's Securities Litigation Reporter, Compliance Weekly, and Compliance and Regulatory Newsletter. He has written numerous articles and client alerts on issues relating to securities regulation and SEC enforcement issues. He has spoken and given presentations to Boards of Directors on important developments in securities and corporate litigation. Mr. Bielema is also active in the community, and has worked for years with The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta as a member at large and, more recently, as a member of the Resource Development Committee.

Representative matters:

• Representation of the issuer in In Re World Health Alternatives Securities Litigation, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. (ongoing)
• Representing of the Chairman of the Board of a major corporation, and former CEO of a Fortune 200 company in connection with a multi-billion dollar litigation pending in the United States Bankruptcy Court (ongoing).
• Representation of 3 underwriter defendants in In Re: AFC Securities Litigation, US District Court, NDGA (ongoing)
• Representation of Viacom Outdoor, Inc. in Viacom Outdoor, Inc. v Van Wagner Communications, LLC, Superior Court of Los Angeles County, State of California (ongoing)
• Representation of Coventry Health Care in shareholder securities class action Roffe v First Health et al, in the Chancery Court of Cook County, State of Illinois (ongoing)
• Representation of Reliance Trust Company and SouthTrust Bank in a $28 million bondholders class action, obtaining denial of class certification and dismissal of case, affirmed on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit
• Representation of targets of numerous SEC and other regulatory investigations and enforcement actions
• Representation of Lodgian Hotels, Inc. in an action asserting claims under Section 10(B) and Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
• Representation of Metromedia, Inc. and Metromedia directors in securities class action litigation, bankruptcy adversary proceedings and bankruptcy subordination proceedings
• Representation of underwriter defendants in In Re: Longhorn Securities Litigation
• Representation of Level 8 Systems, Inc. in an appraisal proceeding in Delaware Chancery Court
• Representation of a major financial institution in internal investigation in response to two shareholder derivative demands
• Representation of the issuer and directors of IQ Software Corporation in IQ Software Securities Litigation, US District Court, NDGA