Blake Hornick is a partner in the New York office of Seyfarth Shaw. He is a general corporate transactional attorney focusing his practice on federal securities laws and merger and acquisition transactions. Hornick represents public and private companies in corporate governance matters and in all aspects of securities work in the federal 1933 and 1934 Acts, ranging from private placements to IPOs, from both the issuer and underwriter side, to follow-on offerings, to the filing of periodic and current reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. His mergers and acquisitions practice includes representing corporate, private equity and venture capital buyers and sellers in stock and asset acquisition and dispositions, as well as partnership, stockholder, employment and joint venture arrangements related thereto. He currently represents a major office REIT in the Northeast in all of its securities work and is a member of the NAREIT SEC Subcommittee. Michael Dunn is a senior associate in the New York office whose practice is focused on counseling public companies on registration and reporting obligations under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Dunn has extensive experience drafting, reviewing and responding to SEC Staff comment letters relating to periodic and current reports on Forms 10-Q, 10-K and 8-K, proxy and information statements (including the CD&A), Section 16 forms for officers and directors relating to equity compensation awards, registration statements on Form S-8 for employee benefit and equity compensation plans as well as Forms S-1 and S-3 for other primary and secondary offerings of securities, and requests for confidential treatment. In addition, Dunn has assisted public companies with a broad range of corporate governance compliance activities including compensation risk assessments, FINRA compliance, drafting and assessing insider trading compliance programs and 10b5-1 trading plans, and compliance with NYSE, NASDAQ and NYSE Amex listing standards.