Jenner & Block Strengthens Its Corporate Practice With The Return Of Aon In-House Counsel Michael T. Wolf As A Partner In Its Chicago Office

"With his extensive in-house and law firm experience, Michael has a unique and broad perspective that adds tremendous value to our client relationships," said Terrence J. Truax, Jenner & Block's managing partner.  "Corporations turn to us for our ability to handle their most sophisticated corporate transactional and counseling matters, and Michael's return strengthens our ability to provide counsel at the highest levels of excellence."

Mr. Wolf represents public and private companies, joint ventures, start-ups and other business clients in a wide variety of corporate and transactional matters, including public and private company mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and other similar transactions, securities offerings and counseling, commercial contracting, IP transactions, and board and committee corporate governance counseling.  His industry experience includes the aviation and aerospace, automotive, consulting, consumer products, financial services, food, insurance brokerage, laboratory services, medical equipment, manufacturing, software, steel and telecommunications industries.

"For well over a decade, we have worked with Michael as both a partner and a client, watching him lead sophisticated mergers and acquisitions, and securities offerings, and seeing first-hand his deep understanding of the issues facing public and private corporations in a wide variety of industries," said Joseph P. Gromacki, chair of Jenner & Block's firmwide Corporate Practice.  "His experience, insight and creativity make him exceptionally well suited to handle the most challenging and high-stakes matters.  We are very pleased to welcome Michael back to the firm."

In his role at Aon, Mr. Wolf was responsible for global mergers and acquisitions, securities, capital markets, corporate secretary and governance matters, tax and internal reorganizations, vendor contracting and intellectual property management at a UK-domiciled, NYSE-listed company with a $32 billion market capitalization. While at Aon, Mr. Wolf led, among other significant merger and acquisition transactions, the transformational sale of Aon's global benefits administration and business process outsourcing division for US$4.3 billion plus a US$500 million contingent payment.  He also led many registered offerings of senior notes aggregating US$2.9 billion in principal amount, one registered offering of EuroNotes with €500 million in principal amount, and the negotiation of Aon's US$900 million multi-currency credit facility and Aon's US and European commercial paper programs.

"Having worked with Jenner & Block lawyers as both a partner and senior in-house counsel, I am deeply familiar with the firm's commitment to excellence and dedication to client service," said Mr. Wolf.  "I'm looking forward to returning to the firm and building upon a premier corporate practice that matches both the firm's values and reputation, and mine."

Mr. Wolf graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Before becoming a lawyer, he served in various capacities for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. and The First National Bank of Chicago.  Mr. Wolf received his M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from DePaul University and his B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ABOUT JENNER & BLOCK'S MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS PRACTICE
Jenner & Block's mergers and acquisitions lawyers regularly represent public and private companies of all sizes, private equity investors, special committees, financial advisors and other parties in all types of US and cross-border M&A activities, including acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, MBOs, LBOs, going-private transactions and reorganizations.  These representations include both friendly and contested acquisitions, tender offers and defensive planning.  We assist our clients in all aspects of M&A transactions – from front-end strategic planning and structuring to managing the deal process through successful execution and closing.  Our corporate lawyers work closely with lawyers from our environmental, ERISA and executive compensation, government contracts, labor, privacy and data security, real estate, tax and other regulatory groups to provide comprehensive due diligence and integrated transaction structures.  Our lawyers have extensive and varied transaction experience and up-to-date knowledge of the ever-changing regulatory, legal, tax, accounting and business issues impacting our clients in these transactions.

ABOUT JENNER & BLOCK'S SECURITIES PRACTICE
Jenner & Block's lawyers have experience in a wide variety of securities transactions. We represent clients in capital-raising activities ranging from small IPOs and private placements to the very largest public offerings, and we also represent clients in connection with the securities law aspects of merger and acquisition transactions and tender and exchange offers.  We also regularly counsel large and small publicly-held companies on a wide range of securities compliance, 1934 Act reporting and ongoing disclosure matters, including with regard to financial reporting and the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the related SEC and securities exchange rules thereunder.  We also represent public company audit committees, as well as independent directors and other public company committees, in matters involving the federal securities laws.  Additionally, we represent companies in connection with registered spin-offs and split-offs as well as other complex corporate reorganizations.

ABOUT JENNER & BLOCK
Jenner & Block (www.jenner.com) is a law firm with global reach, with more than 500 lawyers and offices in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC.  The firm is known for its prominent and successful litigation practice and experience handling sophisticated and high-profile corporate transactions.  Firm clients include Fortune 100 companies, large privately held corporations, financial services institutions, emerging companies and venture capital and private equity investors. The American Lawyer recognized the firm as the #1 pro bono firm in the United States seven of the past 10 years; the firm has been ranked among the top 10 in this category every year since 1990.

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