Stacie Aarestad is a partner in Foley Hoag's Securities Practice Group and M&A Practice Group. She focuses on corporate and securities law matters, public company representation and merger and acquisition transactions. Stacie represents issuers in a broad range of capital market transactions, including public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, and also advises companies with respect to tender offers, exchange offers, debt repurchases and stock buybacks.

A significant portion of Stacie’s practice includes counseling public company clients on their ongoing reporting obligations, corporate governance and related regulatory matters. She also regularly counsels clients with respect to Section 16 matters, insider trading regulations, executive compensation matters and various other matters affecting public companies and their officers and directors.

Stacie has more than fifteen years of experience advising companies in the life sciences industry. In addition to representing these companies in capital market transactions, Stacie acts as outside general counsel in ongoing issues of corporate governance.