Experience 

Michael Hermsen has an extensive corporate and transactional practice that focuses on securities matters.  He represents issuers, underwriters and securityholders in connection with public and private offerings of equity and debt securities.  Mike also represents corporate clients in connection with Securities Act and Exchange Act compliance and reporting and compliance with NYSE and Nasdaq regulations, and counsels companies, boards of directors and management on stock purchases, executive compensation reporting and other corporate governance matters. 

In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Mike represents buyers and sellers in connection with public and private acquisitions and divestitures, mergers, tender offers, exchange offers and consent solicitations.

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.

Education 

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

Admitted

• Illinois, 1995
• Wisconsin, 1986