JOHN O. NEWELL
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COUNSEL
Exchange Place
53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
USA
617.570.1475
John Newell, a counsel in the firm's Business Law Department, works on a variety of securities, financing and corporate matters for financial institutions and industrial companies. He is a member of the firm's Capital Markets, M&A/Corporate Governance and Private Equity Practices.
WORK FOR CLIENTS
Mr. Newell’s experience includes representing issuers, underwriters and institutional investors in initial and subsequent public offerings of debt, equity and convertible securities; preparing and reviewing corporate periodic reports, insider securities ownership reports and other compliance matters under federal and state securities laws; representing institutional investors in private placements of high-yield debt, equity and convertible securities in corporate restructurings and recapitalizations; and corporate acquisitions and dispositions involving public and private corporations. Mr. Newell has also worked on a variety of other financing transactions, including venture capital investments, bank credit facilities and project financing.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Newell has chaired and served as a panelist for various Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education programs on federal securities laws. He is a member of the Boston and American Bar Associations.
MEDIA
Mr. Newell’s most recent article is “Shelf Registration Statements Begin Expiring,” which was published in the August 2008 edition of Insights: The Corporate and Securities Law Advisor. Other published articles include “Dealing with the Public Availability of SEC Comment Letters,” which appeared in the February 2006 edition of Insights; and “Operating Under the New Form 8-K Accelerated and Expanded Reporting Requirements” and “The New Form 8-K: Interpretive Issues for REITs and REOCs,” co-authored with Ettore Santucci, which appeared in the Winter, 2004 edition of The Real Estate Finance Journal.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Newell is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Maine.
EDUCATION
- J.D., 1984
New York University School of Law
- A.B., 1980
Middlebury College
(magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)