Mr. Underwood practices primarily in the areas of public and private offerings of equity and debt securities; securities laws and reporting compliance; corporate governance; and mergers and acquisitions, including private equity portfolio company investments. Mr. Underwood has experience representing both underwriters and issuers in public debt and equity offerings, and effecting private placements; and working with venture capitalists, investment banks and other financing sources to raise capital for start-up companies.

Mr. Underwood is also a member of the firm's Financial Crisis Response Team, and one of the organizers of and participants in the firm's annual National Directors Institute, a symposium for directors, officers, general counsel and boardroom advisors to both public and private companies focusing on corporate governance issues. He also served for six years on the firms National Recruiting Committee, and led the firm's United Way Campaign in 2007 and 2008. Mr. Underwood is also a member of the Associate Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Milwaukee and a director of the National W-Club.

Mr. Underwood received his bachelor's degree in international relations (Soviet Area studies) from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1992, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and named to the Academic All Big Ten football team. Mr. Underwood studied Russian language and culture at Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia in 1992 before earning his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1996.

Mr. Underwood is admitted to practice in the state of Wisconsin.