Adé Heyliger is a partner in Weil’s Public Company Advisory. Prior to joining Weil, Heyliger served for five years in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance. Prior to the SEC, Heyliger worked in the investment banking division at Merrill Lynch. Heyliger is recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” for Shareholder Activism: Advice to Boards and is recommended for Corporate Governance by Legal 500 US. He is also recognized by Who’s Who Legal for M&A and Corporate Governance. Heyliger is a former chair of the Federal Regulation of Securities: Proxy Statements and Business Combinations Subcommittee of the American Bar Association and a former cochair of the DC Bar Association’s Mergers & Acquisitions Committee. Heyliger has also served as an adjunct professor of “Takeovers, Mergers & Acquisitions” at Georgetown University Law Center, which, to date, has been attended by more than 100 members of the SEC staff via the SEC University Program.