Practice Areas
Justin “J.T.” Ho’s practice is focused on helping public companies and their boards navigate complex and challenging corporate governance, securities reporting, shareholder activism, crisis communication, and executive compensation issues through collaborating on practical, innovative, business-oriented solutions. J.T. regularly advises public companies on board and committee matters, and helps them to develop effective shareholder engagement programs and governance-related disclosures, while considering the views of proxy advisors, shareholders, and other stakeholders in their decision making. J.T. has shepherded many companies through challenging board governance, management succession and shareholder engagement matters, in addition to helping nearly two dozen companies remediate failed or low “say on pay” votes.
J.T. also focuses on advising clients in connection with securities offerings, proxy statements, periodic SEC reports, stock exchange listing obligations, stock repurchases, and the sale and reporting of securities by insiders. He regularly counsels companies on difficult and emerging disclosure issues and provides training on disclosure best practices.
Additionally, J.T. has helped numerous clients successfully navigate shareholder proposals, activism campaigns and crisis communications situations through leveraging his knowledge of shareholder perspectives, corporate governance and securities laws. His work on activism campaigns has focused on preparedness, adopting reasonable defenses, collaborating on impactful shareholder engagement and communication strategies, addressing risk oversight issues, and developing effective proxy contest strategies.