Experience 

Michael Hermsen has an extensive practice that focuses on securities matters.  He represents issuers, investment banking firms and securityholders in connection with issuances of equity and debt securities.  Mike also represents corporate clients in connection with compliance and reporting matters and counsels companies, boards of directors and management on stock purchases, liability management, executive compensation reporting and corporate governance matters.

Before Mike joined Mayer Brown in 1994, he had extensive senior administrative experience with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC.  In the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance he served as Assistant Director (1992-1994), Special Counsel (1990-1992) and Attorney/Advisor (1986-1990).  He also has accounting and audit experience with a then-Fortune 500 manufacturing corporation.

Legal 500 recommended Mike in "Capital Markets Debt Offerings" stating that Mike is noted to "have provided excellent service" to clients and is very personable in addition to being "very good at his work."

Education 

University of Wisconsin Law School, JD, 1986 • Marquette University, MBA, 1982 • Marquette University, BS, 1980

Admitted

• Illinois, 1995
• Wisconsin, 1986