Strategic and Collaborative Guidance on Complex Issues Facing Publicly Traded Companies

Our Public Company Advisory Practice is a trusted advisor to more than 200 public company clients, including many on the Fortune 100, on a variety of complex legal and strategic matters. Our interdisciplinary practice seamlessly brings together lawyers from across the firm to advise companies from formation through IPO to mature public company, on a range of matters including corporate governance, capital markets, finance, M&A, tax, executive compensation and benefits, shareholder engagement, risk management, crisis management and response, cybersecurity/AI and litigation. We regularly advise boards and directors on legal strategy, directors’ duties, sensitive disclosure matters, and legal and regulatory compliance. The Public Company Advisory Practice includes more than 40 corporate and litigation partners and other senior lawyers who spent portions of their careers at senior levels of a number of key federal government departments and agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Washington, D.C. and Virginia. Together, we bring market-leading insight, experience and service to our clients.