Public Companies

McDermott Will & Emery’s Public Companies Group efficiently provides public companies a broad array of significant, high-quality services. Attorneys in various disciplines collaborate seamlessly to counsel public companies with regard to:

securities law compliance and offerings
corporate responsibility and governance
executive compensation and other employee benefits
Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
stock exchange listing standards
investor relations

We are primary outside counsel to public companies in many different industries, and we help them meet their business objectives while satisfying their obligations and commitments to regulators, security holders, employees, ratings agencies, the media and the public. In addition to clients for whom we are primary outside counsel, we advise many other public companies on discrete compliance, finance, disclosure, policy, governance and other matters.

Our Public Companies Group also frequently works with the Firm’s other departments and practice groups that regularly provide legal services to public companies and their directors and executives, such as our Employee Benefits, Private Client (i.e., estate planning), Tax and Trial departments and our corporate lawyers focused primarily on merger and other acquisition and disposition transactions.

Our Public Companies Group represents public companies of all sizes, including a number of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. We also advise SEC-reporting companies based outside the United States (including those referred to by the SEC as “foreign private issuers”) and other non-U.S. public companies.