Jayo O. Rothman

Jay O. Rothman is a partner, business lawyer, and the chairman and CEO of Foley & Lardner LLP. Mr. Rothman practices primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities law, takeover defense, and general corporate and business law. He is a member of the firm’s Management Committee and the former chair of the Transactional & Securities Practice.

Among other transactions, he has structured and negotiated numerous acquisition transactions in various industries and has represented both underwriters and corporate issuers in various public offerings of both debt and equity securities. Mr. Rothman also regularly counsels publicly-held companies regarding compliance matters under federal and state securities laws. He is a member of the firm’s Transactional & Securities Practice and the Energy Industry Team.

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Areas of Practice 1) Corporate Governance, 2) Mergers & Acquisitions, 3) Securities & Corporate Finance and 4) Transactional & Securities
Law School Harvard Law School
Education Marquette University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1982)
Bar Member / Association the Milwaukee Bar Association, the State Bar of Wisconsin
Most recent firm Foley &Lardner LLP
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