Bio

Jessica Lochmann is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and the co-leader of the firm’s Capital Markets and Public Company Advisory practice. Jessie practices corporate and business law, with an emphasis in securities law and compliance, corporate governance, executive compensation and capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Jessie frequently represents issuers in securities transactions, including initial and secondary public offerings of equity securities and public and private placements of debt securities. In addition to her capital markets work, Jessie regularly advises public company clients and their boards of directors on a broad range of corporate and securities law matters, including SEC reporting and disclosure issues, corporate governance best practices, fiduciary duty issues, stock exchange requirements and shareholder activism and related preparedness. She actively represents over a dozen public companies on their regular 1934 Act compliance and governance matters. Jessie serves on the firm’s national partnership selection committee. She is a member and former co-chair of the firm’s Manufacturing Industry Team as well as the former hiring partner for the Milwaukee office. She previously served as the vice-chair of the firm’s Transactions Practice Group. Jessie has served as the co-chair of the firm’s National Directors Institute Program since 2014. She is a frequent speaker on corporate governance and SEC-related topics.