Heidi J. Steele

Heidi J. Steele Focuses her practice on corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies and corporate counseling. She has extensive experience in public and private equity and debt financings, compliance with disclosure and regulatory requirements, tender offers and mergers, acquisitions and dispositions. She advises public and private corporations on a variety of matters, including securities compliance. Read Heidi Steele's full bio.

Firm/Organization: McDermott Will & Emery

Blogs: Corporate Deal Source, Employee Benefits Blog

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Employee Benefits Blog

ISS and Glass Lewis Update Proxy Voting Guidelines for 2019

By Robert H. Cohen, Thomas P. Conaghan, Gary Emmanuel, Andrew Liazos, Mark J. Mihanovic, Eric Orsic, Heidi J. Steele & Hank Goldberg on January 3, 2019

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC both recently issued their annual proxy voting guideline updates. As revised, these guidelines have important implications for companies preparing for the 2019 proxy season. Access the full article.…

Employee Benefits Blog

Capital Markets & Public Companies Quarterly: Expanding Relief under Smaller Reporting Company, Reg A+ and Rule 701, SEC Enforcement of Cybersecurity Disclosures and Other News

By Robert H. Cohen, Thomas P. Conaghan, Gary Emmanuel, William Hadler, Mark J. Mihanovic, Ted J. Murphy, Eric Orsic & Heidi J. Steele on August 2, 2018

During the previous quarter, the SEC acted to expand the number of companies that may rely on the “smaller reporting company” scaled disclosure regime and Congress directed revisions to the Regulation A+ and Rule 701 exemptions. The SEC also took enforcement action on a major cybersecurity breach, reinforcing its recent interpretive guidance on the subject. The director of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance also spoke on how blockchain assets may or may not constitute…

Employee Benefits Blog

Capital Markets & Public Companies Quarterly: 2018 Proxy Season Pointers, Disclosing the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” Shareholder Proposals and ICOs

By Robert H. Cohen, Thomas P. Conaghan, Gary Emmanuel, William Hadler, Mark J. Mihanovic, Ted J. Murphy, Eric Orsic & Heidi J. Steele on January 25, 2018

The end of a year and beginning of the next generally starts the countdown to the public company proxy season. But before moving into 2018, registrants would be well served by first looking back to the guidance that came out of the SEC at the end of 2017. During the last quarter, the SEC staff had their hands full preparing for new standards impacting registrants’ filings this year, keeping pace with tax reform, tweaking the…

Employee Benefits Blog

SEC Publishes Helpful Guidance on Pay Ratio Disclosure

By Robert H. Cohen, Thomas P. Conaghan, Gary Emmanuel, Andrew Liazos, Mark J. Mihanovic, Ted J. Murphy, Eric Orsic & Heidi J. Steele on October 26, 2017

The SEC recently confirmed that the new CEO pay ratio disclosure rules mandated in the Dodd-Frank Act will go into effect in the 2018 proxy season. To assist companies in preparation of the new disclosure, the SEC published interpretive guidance on September 21, 2017. Continue reading.…

Employee Benefits Blog

2016 Proxy Season Checklist – What You Need to Know

By Thomas P. Conaghan, Robert H. Cohen, Mark J. Mihanovic, Heidi J. Steele & Eric Orsic on February 4, 2016

Executive compensation, corporate governance, shareholder engagement and other rule changes and rulemakings for public companies are highlighted in the 2016 Proxy Season Checklist. The list discusses important developments that will affect the upcoming and future proxy seasons, and offers suggestions on how to prepare for them. Read the full article. …

Corporate Deal Source

Inside M&A – October 2015

By Heidi J. Steele on October 26, 2015

McDermott Will & Emery has released the October 2015 issue of Inside M&A, which focuses on current issues surrounding special-purpose acquisition companies. Articles in this issue include: Overview of SPACs and Latest Trends A number of recent successful business combination transactions involving special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) led by prominent sponsors have driven a resurgence in the SPAC inital public offering (IPO) market and an evolution in some SPAC terms. In this article, we provide an overview…

Heidi J. Steele

ISS and Glass Lewis Update Proxy Voting Guidelines for 2019

Capital Markets & Public Companies Quarterly: Expanding Relief under Smaller Reporting Company, Reg A+ and Rule 701, SEC Enforcement of Cybersecurity Disclosures and Other News

Capital Markets & Public Companies Quarterly: 2018 Proxy Season Pointers, Disclosing the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” Shareholder Proposals and ICOs

SEC Publishes Helpful Guidance on Pay Ratio Disclosure

2016 Proxy Season Checklist – What You Need to Know

Inside M&A – October 2015

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