Will Dorton Joins the Dickinson Wright Lexington Office

Dickinson Wright PLLC is pleased to announce that Will Dorton has joined the firm’s Lexington office as Of Counsel.

Mr. Dorton joins the firm after serving as Corporate and Securities Counsel at Tempur Sealy International, a New York Stock Exchange-listed company headquartered in Lexington, KY and as a Staff Attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Corporation Finance in Washington, DC.  He previously served as a corporate attorney at a leading international law firm based in Atlanta, GA.

Mr. Dorton has significant experience in securities, governance, corporate finance, M&A, financial services regulatory and corporate treasury matters.  His practice includes counseling companies on a range of complex corporate transactions, including all aspects of leveraged finance and general mergers and acquisitions, where he has worked with banks and non-bank financial institutions and corporate borrowers, including private equity firms and other financial industry participants. He counsels clients on federal securities law compliance and capital markets matters, including periodic and current reporting, capital-raising transactions, Section 16 matters, proxy statement disclosure, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, exchange listing requirements, insider trading regulations and executive compensation documentation and disclosure.  He also has experience representing banks and other financial industry participants in regulatory matters and has counseled clients across industries in all aspects of entity formation and maintenance.  Mr. Dorton is able to offer clients a unique perspective based on his varied roles in private practice, as a federal regulator and an in-house advisor.

Will received his B.A. cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he was also elected to the Order of the Coif and served as a staff editor for the Kentucky Law Journal.