Aaron A. Seamon brings considerable capital formation expertise to clients in a variety of regulated industries, with an emphasis on the financial services industry. He has assumed leading roles in structuring and implementing numerous public offerings and private placements of equity, debt and hybrid securities, as well as through various government sponsored programs. In the past two years alone Mr. Seamon has represented clients in more than 30 public capital transactions totaling US$18 billion. He also has significant experience in the acquisition of troubled financial institutions (in both FDIC assisted and non-assisted transactions) and in managing exposure to troubled financial institutions.

Mr. Seamon is a member of the firm's financial services and corporate practice groups, and co-leads its capital markets practice segment. In addition to advising companies in the financial services industry, he regularly advises companies in the insurance, utilities, information technology and manufacturing industries on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters including securities law reporting and compliance issues, mergers, acquisitions and disposition transactions, and corporate governance matters.

Mr. Seamon has been regularly included in Ohio Super Lawyers–Rising Stars, a listing of the top 2.5 percent of Ohio lawyers age 40 or under, or in practice for 10 years or less. Mr. Seamon’s volunteer activities include participating in the Columbus Bar Association’s Homeless Project and serving as a volunteer for the Childhood League of Columbus. He is a graduate of the Leadership Columbus class of 2008.

Sample Publications

• “Economic Stimulus Act Imposes New Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance Requirements for TARP Recipients” available at www.ssd.com, February 2009.
• “Hybrid Securities: An Increasingly Popular Financing Tool,” Infrastructure, ABA Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law, Vol. 46, No 4, Summer 2007.

Reprezentatívne skúsenosti

• Assisting multiple bank holding companies subject to the US government's Supervisory Capital Assessment Program with respect to capital formation matters including common stock offerings, debt issuances and related public and private exchange offer transactions, totaling more than US$3.8 billion in 2009.
• Advising several leading money-center financial institutions in structuring ground-breaking issuances of hybrid securities totaling more than US$26 billion including the first such transaction approved by the Federal Reserve in December 2005.
• Advising multiple regional banks in acquiring institutions out of FDIC receivership.
• Advising leading financial institutions in structuring bank note programs, medium term note programs and commercial paper programs and related issuances in the United States, Europe and Canada.
• Advising banks, affiliates of banks and borrowers in secured and unsecured loan transactions and letter of credit enhanced transactions.