Stuart Welburn

United States

Thompson Hine LLP · Stuart is a partner in, and vice chair of, our Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group. He focuses his practice on international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, securities laws and compliance, and corporate governance matters. Stuart represents public and private companies, boards of directors, board committees, investors, and financial advisors in a range of corporate transactions and governance matters. Stuart joined Thompson Hine in 1996 and became a partner in 2001. Prior to joining the firm, he was a corporate finance solicitor in England. Stuart has particular expertise in the following areas: Buy-side and sell-side representation of clients in auction situations involving public and private company targets (or their assets), with consideration ranging from the tens of millions to multiple billions of dollars. Representation of public companies, boards of directors and special committees of independent directors in connection with mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, securities filings, takeover defenses, activist and passive investor engagement, director and senior management transition situations, and compliance and corporate governance matters. Representation of public and large private companies that have a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in their past, with complex balance sheets and disparate shareholder bases composed of former lenders, hedge funds, and institutional investors. Stuart helps these clients, their boards of directors and standing and special committees, to navigate the many business and legal challenges they face in the years that follow their emergence from bankruptcy. Representation of overseas public companies, particularly those headquartered in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in connection with acquisitions of businesses in the United States and other countries. Representation of investment funds in connection with the acquisition, holding, disposition, and voting of registered and unregistered securities. Stuart represents clients in a number of industries, including specialty chemicals, energy, transportation, telecommunications, automotive, manufacturing, health care and retail.

United States