Bio

John Beckman helps his clients navigate the ever-changing public company landscape. He focuses on SEC disclosure, financial and accounting issues, proxy solicitations, insider trading, state corporate law issues, strategic transactions, and corporate governance. As the leader of the firm's U.S. Securities and Public Company Advisory practice, John's focus is on representing public companies and their boards on their most important matters. John frequently represents public companies and boards of directors on strategic transactions, including strategic review processes and unsolicited takeover proposals, financial restatements, and shareholder interactions, including shareholder engagement and proxy contests. He has over 20 years of experience advising clients on a broad range of complex transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions, tender offers, divestitures, spin-offs, dividends and distributions, capital markets financings and recapitalizations. John serves as regular outside securities and corporate governance counsel to numerous NYSE and NASDAQ listed companies. In addition, John is regularly engaged as special counsel by other law firms, companies, and boards to advise on corporate governance matters, crises, and special situations. John is nationally recognized as a leading lawyer in corporate governance and public company representations.