Jones Day

Financial Markets

Partner

Joel May is co-chair of the Firm's corporate governance area, with more than 23 years of experience representing clients and their boards of directors in a broad range of financing and corporate transactions, as well as corporate governance, shareholder activism, proxy fights, and securities compliance matters. Joel has represented clients in domestic and international financing and corporate transactions in the manufacturing, consumer products, chemical products, real estate, e-commerce, telecommunications, and information management industries; these transactions include public equity and debt offerings; initial public offerings (IPOs); special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and private investment in public equity (PIPE) transactions; Rule 144A high yield offerings; reorganizations, restructurings, and recapitalizations; and other M&A transactions.