Bruce Davidson is a former member and chair of Quarles & Brady’s Corporate Finance/Securities Team. A significant portion of his practice involved representation of clients subject to regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and he has extensive experience representing publicly held companies with respect to public and private offerings of securities, general securities law compliance, corporate governance and business combination transactions. Mr. Davidson’s experience included:

• Counseling companies about compliance with the extensive corporate governance and disclosure changes resulting from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and related SEC and stock exchange initiatives.
  
  
• Representing companies offering securities off of shelf registration statements and through Rule 144A offerings followed by back-end registrations.
  
  
• Assisting companies in effecting spinoffs and business combination transactions and preparing the requisite SEC filings, including a $3.7 billion stock-for-stock merger, a $2.2 billion two-step tender offer/merger sale transaction, and the associated SEC filings.
  
  
• Advising clients regarding compliance with disclosure requirements applicable to SEC reports, press releases and investor presentations and disclosure issues in connection with proxy solicitations, business combination transactions and securities offerings.
  
  
• Counseling clients with respect to corporate governance principles, board committee charters, responsibilities of board committees and independent directors, corporate policies and general corporate matters.