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Jonathan Levy advises financial institutions and other public companies, as well as officers, directors and shareholders, on matters related to corporate and securities law, including review of SEC disclosure documents and press releases, capital markets transactions and board governance matters. He has significant experience in public-company mergers and acquisitions and other change-in-control and strategic transactions. Jon routinely counsels issuers, officers and directors on insider trading and reporting, internal control over financial reporting, material-weakness and significant-deficiency disclosures, fiduciary duties, and related corporate securities matters. He frequently assists public clients on corporate governance issues related to stock-exchange-listing requirements, ISS, and other corporate governance guidelines, anti-takeover matters, executive compensation and equity plans, related-party transactions, and employee benefits and proxy disclosures. Jon also has considerable familiarity with drafting and providing advice on public and private offerings, tender offers, proxy statements, proxy contest strategies, stockholder rights plans, shareholder proposals, Section 16 reporting and compliance, Schedule 13d and 13g filings, and 10b-5-1 plans for a wide range of publicly held companies. He has provided advice to special committees and to audit, compensation and governance committees on various aspects of SEC disclosure requirements and listing rules.Before joining Lindquist & Vennum, Jon served as senior counsel in the Enforcement Division of the SEC�s Southeast regional office. | 