Frank Placenti Email Address

Partner, Squire Patton Boggs LLP

Squire Sanders & Dempsey

Frank Placenti is a seasoned attorney, board advisor and board member. He is nationally recognized as a leading expert on board governance and related matters. His experience spans 35+ years of working with management and boards of private and public boards ranging from start-up to Fortune 5. In the boardroom, Frank is aware of the dynamics and interplay of strategy, operations and governance and is adept at facilitating discussions that improve both functionality and outcome for boards and companies. He is a published author and frequent panelist and speaker on board related matters. Frank has extensive experience with a full range of board related issues, including capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions (including distressed financings), investor relations, shareholder activism, crisis management, succession planning, financial distress, enterprise risk management, special committee assignments in both transactions and investigations and executive compensation. Frank was instrumental in the conception and formation of the American College of Governance Counsel, a group of elite corporate governance lawyers in the US and Canada, for which he served two terms as the Founding President. Additionally, he conceived and developed the Delaware Governance Institute as a collaboration of the University of Delaware, the Delaware Supreme Court and the American Bar Association, where he served as Chair of the ABA Committee on Corporate Governance. Frank also conceived and developed the Arizona Nonprofit Director Symposium to train nonprofit directors. Frank conceived and served as Editor for The Directors Handbook: A Field Guide to 101 Situations Commonly Encountered in the Boardroom, published by the American Bar Association and endorsed by Ira Millstein, Martin Lipton, Larry Sonsini and Former Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Myron Steele. Frank is a proud graduate of The Ohio State University College of Law, where he attended as a Jack Nicklaus sponsored scholar, reflecting his lifelong connection to the game of golf, and where he continues as an Adjunct Professor. He resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona with his wife of 25 years and his two college age children.