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Aaron A. Seamon
Partner
Aaron Seamon is a partner in the Financial Services and Corporate Practice Groups and co-leads the firm’s Capital Markets Practice segment. He has significant capital formation, corporate governance and compliance expertise, representing clients in a variety of regulated industries, including financial services, information technology, chemicals, retail and manufacturing. He regularly advises clients on all aspects of Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting and compliance.
Aaron’s corporate governance expertise includes serving as board counsel and corporate secretary to several publicly-traded companies. He regularly counsels boards and special committees on governance, shareholder activism and succession matters, and is a frequent presenter on governance best practices and related topics.
Aaron has also assumed leading roles in structuring and implementing numerous public offerings and private placements of equity, debt and hybrid securities, as well as through various government sponsored programs. Since the financial crisis, Aaron has represented issuers, underwriters and sources of capital in hundreds of public and private offerings, resulting in billions in capital being raised.
Aaron has been recognized for his expertise in corporate law and corporate governance in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and has been honored as a top lawyer for banking and finance services law by Columbus CEO Magazine. Aaron also regularly provides pro bono representation to several non-profit boards.
- Issuer’s counsel for a regional bank holding company in connection with a public offering of common stock and associated equity forward derivative transaction to finance in part a US$1.4 billion acquisition.
- Underwriters’ counsel for an initial public offering for a bank holding company in one of the largest bank IPOs since 2017.
- Underwriters’ counsel to numerous bulge bracket and boutique investment banks in connection with public offerings of debt and equity securities.
- Issuer’s counsel to a US-based retail company (with significant Japanese ownership) in connection with a US$56 million follow on offering of common stock.
- Issuer’s counsel to numerous leading financial institutions in structuring bank note programs, medium term note programs and commercial paper programs and related issuances in the United States, Europe and Canada.
- Issuer’s counsel to a master limited partnership in the energy sector in connection with its US$1 billion recapitalization, with multiple classes of publicly issued preferred stock and 144A high-yield debt.
- Issuer’s counsel to a natural gas exploration company operating in Australia's Northern Territory in connection with its cross-border capital raise, which included a two-tranche institutional placement, a convertible note issuance to a strategic drilling partner, and a share purchase plan.
- Issuer’s counsel to a diversified investment firm in numerous offerings and high yield debt offerings.
Education
- University of Dayton, J.D., magna cum laude, Executive Editor, University of Dayton Law Review, 1999
- Wittenberg University, B.A., 1996
Admissions
- Ohio, 1999