Eric Finseth

Adjunct Professor Eric Finseth is a corporate and securities partner at Mayer Brown LLP in Palo Alto, California.  He has broad securities regulatory and transactional experience, including public company disclosure counseling, corporate governance, public and private offerings of equity, debt and hybrid securities, mergers and acquisitions, the formation of private investment funds, and the representation of banks and hedge funds in their interactions with the public markets, with an overall emphasis on technical securities law and SEC compliance matters.  He also teaches Corporate Governance at the law school at UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall).

Prior to joining Mayer Brown, during 2005-2006 Professor Finseth was an Attorney Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., in the Division of Corporation Finance, Office of Chief Counsel.  In that capacity, he oversaw and administered for the 2006 proxy season the agency's shareholder proposal program, the central battleground of recent corporate governance disputes between institutional shareholders and public company boards of directors.

Professor Finseth has a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College, a Certificat d'Etudes Politiques from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), a Magister Artium (M.A.) from the Freie Universität Berlin, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.