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Jason Day is the firmwide chair of the Corporate practice and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Jason serves as a trusted advisor to public companies on their most sensitive securities and corporate governance matters. He regularly counsels public company boards of directors and management on SEC disclosure obligations, fiduciary duties, internal investigations, proxy advisory firm standards and stockholder activism matters.

Jason has represented issuers and underwriters in dozens of capital markets offerings, including underwritten equity and debt offerings, initial public offerings, Rule 144A offerings and convertible note offerings, among others. He also counsels companies and their boards on public company change in control transactions, including mergers, tender offers, and SPAC transactions.

Following up on a recent Public Chatter blog in a series about internal investigations, note that Federal Rule of Evidence 502(g) states:

(1) “Attorney-client privilege” means the protection that applicable law provides for confidential attorney-client communications; and

(2) “Work-product protection” means the protection that applicable law provides for tangible material (or its intangible equivalent) prepared