Jo represents clients in corporate, securities, and employment law matters. Her practice has an emphasis on corporate governance issues. She has served as lead counsel on public registrations representing over a billion dollars and has substantial experience in cross-border corporate acquisitions.  Jo also counsels clients on employment matters, focusing on reducing the risk of employment-related litigation.

In the News

• Jo Hackl Named One of the 50 Most Influential in Greenville for the Second Year in a Row
• Twenty Wyche Lawyers Listed in the 2012 Edition of Best Lawyers®
• Jo Hackl Named One of the 50 Most Influential in Greenville for 2010
• GADC Selects Jo Watson Hackl of the Wyche Law Firm to Chair the Board of Directors

Representative Matters

• Represented an international public company in connection with a shelf registration statement covering up to $750 million of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares, stock purchase contracts, stock purchase units, warrants, debt securities and trust preferred securities.
• Represented an international public company in connection with 144A private placement of $400 million of notes and subsequent registered exchange offering.
• Represented an international public company in connection with a $250 million offering of floating rate notes. This offering was a takedown from the shelf registration statement described above.
• Represented a public company in connection with a tender offer and consent solicitation relating to its Senior Notes (approximately $31 million in aggregate amount then outstanding).

Professional Background

Bar and Court Admissions

• Alabama Bar, 1990
• South Carolina Bar, 1990

Professional and Community Activities

• Greenville Area Development Corporation, Immediate Past Chair, Board of Directors
• The Community Foundation of Greenville, Chair, Board of Directors
• Liberty Fellowship Economic Development Forum, Co-Chair
• The Emrys Foundation, President and Board Member
• Camperdown Academy Board of Directors
• Leadership Greenville, Class XIX; past Forum President
• Children's Museum of the Upstate, past Member of the Board of Directors
• Peace Center for the Performing Arts: Philanthropist of the Year, 2002; past Member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors
• United Way of Greenville, Board of Directors
• Former Greenville County Human Relations Commissioner appointed by County Council
• Greenville Professional Women's Forum, Past President

Publications and Presentations

• "Most Common Questions and Answers about Ethics Programs", as heard on "South Carolina Business Review"
• "Ten Questions to Ask Before Joining a Private Company or Non-Profit Board", as heard on "South Carolina Business Review"
• "Most Common Questions and Answers about Positioning Your Company for a Possible IPO", as heard on "South Carolina Business Review"
• Co-author, "State Takeover Statutes and Shareholder Wealth; An Empirical Study," Yale Law Journal, 1988