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William J Quinlan, Jr. is counsel in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's Chicago office. He focuses his practice on federal and state securities law and the corporate, securities law and accounting aspects of all types of executive compensation and employee benefit plans.
He works extensively in the areas of corporate governance for public corporations, including 1934 Act compliance, proxy disclosure and proxy contests, insider trading issues, Section 16 compliance, Form S-8 registration statements and sales of stock under 1933 Act exemptions. Since July 2002, Bill has been involved intensely with all aspects of the corporate reform/governance act known as Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, including executive compensation issues, company compliance with certifications required under Sarbanes-Oxley, accelerated reporting under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, director independence issues, requirements for audit committees, compensation committees and nominating/governance committees. He has also worked extensively with clients in connection with the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq rules enacted to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley.
He has chaired Chicago Bar Association drafting committees which gave comments to the SEC on executive compensation disclosure rules and the Section 16 Rules. He is the former chairman of a securities law subcommittee of the CBA and was a member of the employee benefits subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities.
Bill has spoken before various groups on numerous topics, including executive compensation, the SEC's Section 16 Rules, counseling corporations, and buy-sell agreements. He has also written on these subjects for various publications. Bill has recently authored two chapters of a Securities Law Handbook for the Illinois Institute on Continuing Legal Education. These chapters are entitled "Insider Reporting and Section 16 Liability Issues (Including Sarbanes-Oxley Changes)" and "Resales of Restricted, Control and Rule 145 Securities." He has also recently authored a chapter for The National Center for Employee Ownership entitled "Federal Securities Law Considerations for Incentive Stock Plans."
Bill is admitted to practice in the state of Illinois
Recent transactions include:
Employment and change of control agreements for CEOs of major public corporations
omnibus stock incentive plans
employee stock purchase plans
executive leveraged stock purchase plans
proxy contests for election to the board of NYSE and Nasdaq companies
an issuer dutch auction tender offer
going private tender offer and executive compensation matters for mergers and acquisitions
spin-offs
tracking stock transactions
tender offers for public companies.
Education
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D., 1966
Loyola University Chicago, A.B., 1961 | 