Aneezal practices primarily in the firm’s securities and corporate governance, governmental and internal investigations, and international business areas, leaning on his experience as former assistant general counsel to Cardinal Health Inc., a $99 billion corporation ranked 17th on the Fortune 500, where he was also a founding board member and counsel of the Cardinal Health Foundation.
Born in Sri Lanka, Aneezal is proficient in both Singhalese and Tamil, languages primarily spoken in south and southeast Asia. He joined Kegler Brown in 2011.
Securities & Corporate Governance
Aneezal focuses on protecting clients in disclosure practices, materiality determination, internal board matters, and treasury and finance matters. He is also well-versed in implementing internal controls and procedures; and compliance-related best practices.
Governmental & Internal Investigations
Aneezal has extensive experience with governmental and internal investigations, including advising committees of the Board of Directors and conducting special investigations, leading and managing internal investigations relating to insider trading, accounting and disclosure issues, responding to SEC inquiries and inquiries by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and managing multiple lawyers and law firms in multi-potential-conflict scenarios in white collar crime investigations.
International Business
As chair of the firm’s Middle East practice, Aneezal offers clients strategic advice to assist them in developing global markets. Aneezal maintains extensive experience in matters involving the FCPA.
Aneezal practices primarily in the firm’s securities and corporate governance, governmental and internal investigations, and international business areas, leaning on his experience as former assistant general counsel to Cardinal Health Inc., a $99 billion corporation ranked 17th on the Fortune 500, where he was also a founding board member and counsel of the Cardinal Health Foundation.
Born in Sri Lanka, Aneezal is proficient in both Singhalese and Tamil, languages primarily spoken in south and southeast Asia. He joined Kegler Brown in 2011.
Securities & Corporate Governance Aneezal focuses on protecting clients in disclosure practices, materiality determination, internal board matters, and treasury and finance matters. He is also well-versed in implementing internal controls and procedures; and compliance-related best practices.
Governmental & Internal Investigations Aneezal has extensive experience with governmental and internal investigations, including advising committees of the Board of Directors and conducting special investigations, leading and managing internal investigations relating to insider trading, accounting and disclosure issues, responding to SEC inquiries and inquiries by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and managing multiple lawyers and law firms in multi-potential-conflict scenarios in white collar crime investigations.
International Business As chair of the firm’s Middle East practice, Aneezal offers clients strategic advice to assist them in developing global markets. Aneezal maintains extensive experience in matters involving the FCPA.
Career Highlights
- More than 10 years of counseling Cardinal Health, Inc., a Fortune 17 company, in the most complex securities, corporate governance and regulatory issues
- Extensive experience in materiality determinations and disclosure practices
- Transaction and securities compliance counsel involving billions of dollars in public and private offerings
- Leading and managing governmental and internal investigations relating to insider trading, accounting and disclosure issues
- Years of experience defending investigations by the SEC and U.S. Attorney’s office
- Negotiated an $800-million receivables facility
- Negotiated a $1.5 billion commercial paper program and a $1.5 billion revolving credit facility
- Experienced in share repurchase transactions (totaling $3.5 billion) through10b5-1 plans
- Facilitated a $600-million project finance relating to the privatization by the Government of Abu Dhabi of the Al-Taweelah A-2 project
- Facilitated a $220-million financing of a 250-megawatt power plant in Neyveli, Tamil-Nadu, India
- Founding board member of the Cardinal Health Foundation, and officer and counsel to the Foundation
- Served as counsel to the Cardinal Health Political Action Committee
Professional Memberships - Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Central Ohio, founding board member
- Columbus Council on World Affairs, board member
- United States Global Leadership Coalition Ohio Advisory Council, member
- Member of the American, Michigan, Ohio and Columbus bar associations
Publications & Presentations
- Co-authored an article with the General Counsel of CMS Energy Corporation on the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention which was published in the Michigan International Lawyer magazine
- A panelist discussing “Governmental Investigations” at the NAPABA 2009 Convention in Boston
- A speaker at an OSBA CLE program titled “Advising Corporate Board of Directors and Officers” in 2009
- A panelist discussing “Internal Investigations” at the 2008 MCCA Annual Expo in Chicago
Bar Admissions Education
- Juris Doctorate (1996)
Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan - Bachelor of Arts, Political Science & Economics (1989)
Towson University, Towson, Maryland