John S. Selig

Of Counsel

Bar Admissions: Arkansas

Education

Tulane University
LL.B., University of Arkansas, 1963
New York University Graduate School of Law
Admitted to practice in Arkansas, 1963

Professional Experience

Representing and advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, financing and other forms of business transactions. Advising electric cooperatives generally and representing them before the Arkansas Public Service Commission. Representing and advising banks and bank holding companies on business and regulatory matters. Advising, structuring and preparing all forms of securities disclosure documents required by federal and state law, including prospectuses, offering circulars and private offering memoranda.  Making and completing filings with federal and state securities agencies. Representing issuers and underwriters in public and private securities offerings. Acting as bond and underwriter’s counsel in municipal bond issues. Advising and representing individuals, corporations, partnerships and brokerdealers in all facets of securities laws before state and federal courts, securities regulatory agencies and self-regulatory organizations.

Other Activities

Former Chairman, current Member, Board of Directors, Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation; Member, Board of Directors, Old State House Museum Associates; Former Member, Board of Directors, Fifty For The Future, Inc.; President and Member, Board of Directors, Ben J. Altheimer Charitable Foundation, Inc.; Former Chairman, Board of Trustees, Arkansas Arts Center; Former Member, Board of Directors, Arkansas Arts Center Foundation; Former Regional Advisor, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation. Named in Best Lawyers in America (Corporate and Securities Law), 1991-2012 editions; Chambers and Partners USA: Leading Business Lawyers (Corporate/Commercial); Best Lawyers 2010 Little Rock Corporate Lawyer of the Year; Best Lawyers 2012 Little Rock Securities Regulation Lawyer of the Year.

Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve, Retired; former Arkansas Securities Commissioner and Savings and Loan Supervisor (1971-1974); former Secretary and Treasurer, North American Securities Administrators Association; former Co-Chairman, Real Estate Syndications Committee, Midwest Securities Commissioners Association; Life member, American Law Institute and former advisor on proposed Federal Securities Code, and former Member of consultative group on Restatement Third, Law of Suretyship; Chairman of the Bank Powers Subcommittee of the Governor’s Task Force For the Revision of the Arkansas State Banking Code (Enacted, 1997); served as Chairman, Arkansas Bar Association State and Federal Securities Committee; Speaker at state, regional and national seminars on securities regulation, banking law and municipal finance.

Publications

Author of chapter on “Registration and Regulation of Broker-Dealers, Agents and Investment Advisors” in Blue Sky Regulation published by Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.; co-author of “Revenue Bond Financing in Arkansas” in Arkansas Lawyer; co-author of series of articles on “Third Party Legal Opinions” in Arkansas Lawyer; co-author of “A Watershed Year for Bankers: Arkansas’ 1997 Banking Legislation” in Arkansas Lawyer.