Biography

Mr. Blount is a partner practicing corporate and securities law. Before entering private practice in 1980, Mr. Blount worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., initially in the General Counsel's Office and then as Legal Assistant to the Chairman of the Commission. He is a member of the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, and the section on International Law and Practice of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Blount has represented both U.S. and foreign companies in a wide variety of corporate transactions including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures and financings. Together with Seyfarth Shaw's office in Brussels, he has represented U.S. and foreign companies in setting up international joint ventures involving research and development projects as well as commercial and industrial ventures.

In addition to his broad based corporate transactional practice, Mr. Blount has a substantial securities law practice. In the corporate finance and transactional areas, his practice routinely involves the preparation of registration statements, private placement memoranda and other financing and offering documents for both public and private companies. An important segment of his practice involves the representation of public companies on an ongoing basis in connection with their obligations under the 1934 Act, including the preparation of periodic reports, proxy statements and annual reports to shareholders, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance as well as officer and director compliance under Section 16. Mr. Blount also has represented both companies and individuals in securities arbitrations and SEC enforcement proceedings.

Education

J.D., The University of Houston College of Law (1974)
B.A., The University of Texas at Austin (1971)

Admissions

• Illinois
• District of Columbia
• Texas

Courts

• United States Supreme Court