John J. Halle

Experience

John Halle is a retired partner of the firm whose corporate transactions practice included public and private financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters.

Representative Work

• Advised as issuer's or underwriters' counsel on more than 150 public equity offerings.
• Advised an electrical utility on secured debt financing and other matters.
• Advised companies and investors with respect to start-up, venture capital and other private equity funding.
• Represented buyers and sellers in public and private company merger and acquisition transactions ranging in size from less than $1,000,000 to hundreds of millions.
• Represented domestic companies with respect to international expansion and foreign companies with respect to domestic investment.
• Advised both public and private companies on corporate governance matters.
• Acted as principal outside counsel to public and private companies.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Listed in Best Lawyers in America®, 2007-2012
• Judge, International Moot Court, Regional and International Rounds
• Mentor, law student mentoring program

Publications

• Going Public (coauthor) (5th edition, 1997)
• Foreign Issuers Going Public in the United States (1st edition, 1995)
• "Integration of Securities Offerings: Report of the Task Force on Integration" (coauthor), 41 Bus. Law 595 (1986)
• "Public Financing" (coauthor), 1 Advising Oregon Businesses § 16 (Oregon CLE 1984 rev)

Education

• Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 1978, cum laude
  Articles Editor, Suffolk Transnational Law Review
• Tufts University, M.A., 1974
• University of Oregon, B.A., 1969, with honors
• International School, Geneva, Switzerland
• Le Rosey, Rolle, Switzerland

 

Admissions

• Oregon
• Washington
• U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

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