Overview
Christine McDevitt is an associate in Mayer Brown’s Corporate & Securities practice group. Christine’s practice focuses on securities and capital markets transactions and general corporate counseling. She represents both issuers and underwriters in connection with public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, including debt-for-equity exchanges and split-off transactions, and represents public companies in M&A transactions. In addition to her transactional work, Christine regularly advises clients in a variety of industries on corporate governance issues and securities law and national securities exchange compliance and reporting matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Christine served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons, Jr. on the Delaware Court of Chancery. Her practice draws from her experience on this preeminent business court.
Areas of Focus
Perspectives
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February 122020
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February 202014The M&A Journal
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2012
Corporate Wrongdoing and the In Pari Delicto Defense in Auditor Malpractice Cases: A New Approach
69 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 275
Events
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April 072020
COVID-19 Considerations for SEC Reporting Companies
Hosted By Intelligize
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March 102015
Non-Reliance Provisions in M&A Agreements
Business Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Subcommittee
Education
Washington and Lee University School of Law, JD, summa cum laude
Editor in Chief, Washington and Lee Law Review; Order of the Coif
University of California, Riverside, BS
Admissions
- Illinois
- Virginia
- Not admitted in North Carolina. Practicing under the supervision of firm principals.