Moore & Van Allen PLLC (MVA) is pleased to announce that Corporate Attorneys D. Ryan Hart and Charles W. Kemp have been named to lead the firm’s Securities & Corporate Governance team.
MVA’s Securities & Corporate Governance team serves as trusted advisors to public and private companies, senior management, boards of directors, and board committees on a wide range of corporate governance & securities matters, including securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, compliance and disclosure matters, internal investigations, and shareholder relations. As primary outside counsel on governance & securities matters, the team represents clients that range from publicly traded Fortune 200 companies to investment funds and lower middle-market businesses. The attorneys bring deep knowledge and decades of experience to offer practical advice across a wide range of industries, helping to navigate these often sensitive and consequential matters.
Kemp focuses his practice on U.S. securities laws, corporate governance, shareholder relations and capital markets transactions. Before joining MVA, he served as the lead securities counsel for CarMax, Inc., overseeing all aspects of federal securities law compliance, including financial reporting, annual meetings, securities offerings, and NYSE listing requirements, and previously served as the chair of the Corporate Governance & Securities Department at a large law firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, where he practiced securities & corporate governance law for over 20 years.
Hart focuses his practice on capital markets transactions, U.S. securities laws, corporate governance, domestic and cross-border joint ventures, and general corporate matters. He advises public companies and their boards on a broad spectrum of issues under U.S. securities laws and state corporate law, including SEC compliance, disclosure obligations, exchange regulations, corporate governance and debt and equity financing. Hart has extensive experience advising boards of closely held public companies, including those with dual-class structures or concentrated family or controlling stockholder ownership.