Monique Cenac is a partner in Jones Walker’s Corporate & Securities Practice Group. She joined Jones Walker in 2002 and was elected to partner in 2009. Ms. Cenac’s practice focuses on the representation of public companies with an emphasis on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, corporate governance, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Since 2004, Ms. Cenac has played a critical role in the representation of a group of public companies that share managerial and administrative resources, and with whom Jones Walker has a full-service legal partnering relationship.
Ms. Cenac provides ongoing corporate and securities law advice to public companies and their boards of directors regarding compliance with the corporate governance and disclosure requirements of the securities laws and trading markets. Her experience includes reviewing Form 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, and press releases; beneficial ownership reporting; handling SEC comment letters; handling board and executive compensation matters, including drafting proxy statements; handling annual and special meetings of stockholders; handling stock splits; providing advice regarding NYSE, NASDAQ and OTCQX listing and corporate governance requirements; coordinating compliance with insider trading policies and ethics and business conduct policies; and handling matters relating to proxy contests and activist investors, including implementing anti-takeover defenses. She also has experience with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.
