About TheCorporateCounsel.net

Following the long-standing tradition of The Corporate Counsel and The Corporate Executive, TheCorporateCounsel.net is an educational service that provides practical guidance on legal issues involving corporate and securities regulation and corporate governance practices - as well as many other areas impacting today's corporate practitioner. The Editors are Broc Romanek and Dave Lynn and the Associate Editors are Julie Hoffman and Linda DeMelis, who are assisted by Jesse Brill, Mike Gettelman, and Alan Dye, among many others at Executive Press. We also have an informal advisory board, which provides additional expertise and wisdom to assist us to develop our community.

Before his time as Editor, Broc was founder and editor of RealCorporateLawyer.com. In addition, Broc has served as assistant general counsel at a Fortune 50 company, was in the Office of Chief Counsel of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, acted as Counselor to former SEC Commissioner Unger and was in private practice. Broc frequently writes and speaks about corporate and securities law; he teaches a MBA corporate governance class at George Mason University; serves on the Advisory Council for the SEC Historical Society and is Editor of the Corporate Governance Advisor. He also is on the National Board for the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and is President of the Society's Mid-Atlantic Chapter. He also has served as Chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel's Corporate & Securities Law Committee.

Dave Lynn is a partner in the Washington D.C. Office of Morrison & Foerster, and is Co-Chair of the firm's Global Public Companies practice. Mr. Lynn is also Editor of TheCorporateCounsel.net, CompensationStandards.com, and The Corporate Executive, and is the co-author of The Executive Compensation Disclosure Treatise and Reporting Guide. His practice is focused on advising a wide range of clients on SEC matters, securities transactions and corporate governance.

Mr. Lynn was the Chief Counsel of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance from 2003-2007, where he led the rulemaking team that drafted sweeping revisions to the SEC’s executive compensation and related party disclosure rules. Mr. Lynn initially served on the SEC Staff from 1995-2000 as an Attorney-Advisor and subsequently a Special Counsel in the Division of Corporation Finance. While in private practice from 2000-2003, he advised clients on SEC investigations, securities transactions, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. Mr. Lynn has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught a course in corporate governance.

Julie Hoffman began her career with the Division of Corporation Finance at the SEC, where she co-authored several rulemaking initiatives, including the Aircraft Carrier proposal. After leaving the SEC, she went into private practice with Latham & Watkins, focusing on public offerings of debt and equity securities, tender offers and general Exchange Act disclosure compliance. Most recently, Julie was in private practice with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, where she continued to specialize in advising companies with respect to the '33 Act and the '34, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley.

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