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Corporate Governance

Thelen LLP understands the challenges facing corporate executives and directors as they try to comply with the exacting requirements and standards of recently imposed regulations. Our Corporate Governance attorneys work collaboratively with accounting firms and departments, general counsels, senior managements, boards of directors, board committees, ERISA plan trustees, and other corporate constituencies to advise on regulatory and business practice issues. We also counsel corporate leadership in effectively fulfilling its oversight responsibilities.

Advising entrepreneurs in the formation and growth of their businesses is a significant element of Thelen's corporate and securities practice. We provide our emerging growth clients practical corporate advice to help such clients achieve their specific management and economic goals. Thelen's experience in corporate governance issues makes us the natural choice for a vast array of privately held and public companies alike.

We provide a multi-disciplinary mix of legal talent specializing in federal securities law and regulation; corporate finance; Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement; accounting; tax; ERISA; executive compensation; and employee benefit compliance matters. We help clients respond to SEC inquiries and navigate the evolving regulatory requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).

Thelen attorneys have senior agency experience at the SEC, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Our experience, knowledge, and ongoing communication with these agencies enable us to anticipate regulatory changes and shifts in policy and to provide "early alerts" to clients.

Services that our Corporate Governance team provides include:

  • Monitoring the rule-making activities and actions of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), and counseling clients on the implications of emerging accounting and auditing standards

  • Advising on stock exchange and NASDAQ requirements, monitoring administrative proceedings related to SEC and NASD enforcement actions, counseling on legislative developments in Congress, and tracking significant judicial decisions affecting enforcement of federal securities laws and state corporate laws

  • Advising clients on SEC reviews, enforcement actions, SEC requirements for securities offerings and corporate disclosures, and SOX-related issues

  • Providing advice to clients on applicable corporate governance and disclosure requirements of the SEC, SOX, and the relevant stock exchanges

  • Advising privately held companies pursuing public offerings and exit strategies on compliance with state corporate law, as well as SEC, SOX, and national stock exchange requirements

  • Reviewing current governance structures and practices of tax-exempt organizations and counseling members on recent developments under SOX and applicable state, corporate, and not-for-profit organization laws

To learn more about Thelen's Corporate Governance practice, please contact the following:

Sarah Hewitt
New York
Tel: 212.603.6578
shewitt@thelen.com

Thomas J. Igoe, Jr.
New York
Tel: 212.603.2110
tigoe@thelen.com