Business law insight grounded in broad, cross-disciplinary experience

Jill Polk helps public and private companies find practical solutions to raising and deploying capital, communicating with stakeholders and making best practices decisions in every stage. She focuses on general corporate and securities matters, including federal and state securities law compliance, registered and private equity and debt capital raising, SEC reporting and corporate governance initiatives. In addition, she counsels management and boards on fiduciary duties and responsibilities, insider trading liabilities, and executive and equity compensation practices.

Jill also regularly advises private companies and private investment funds on conducting exempt initial and serial offerings of equity and debt securities, as well as drafting and negotiating:

• Offering memoranda
• Subscription agreements
• Stockholders agreements
• Investment instruments

Before moving forward, Jill takes a step back to understand clients' objectives and works to make sure those goals are met in a way that is both efficient and workable within clients' systems and structures.

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• Missouri

Education

• Eastern Illinois University (B.A., summa cum laude, 2000)

• University of Illinois College of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2004)
  • Order of the Coif