Rochester, New York, September 8, 2026– Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York, is pleased to announce that Mercedez Taitt-Harmon has joined the firm’s Securities and Capital markets practice group as an Associate. Taitt-Harmon started her career working for AmLaw 100 firms in New York City and will serve clients from the Albany office.
As a member of the firm’s Securities and Capital Markets practice group, Taitt-Harmon advises issuers, underwriters and investors in connection with sophisticated capital markets transactions. She counsels clients on public and private securities offerings, including IPOs, follow-on and secondary equity offerings, SPAC and de-SPAC transactions, at-the-market offerings, direct listings and private placements. Taitt-Harmon advises clients in a range of industries on SEC disclosure and reporting requirements, corporate governance issues and compliance matters, helping companies meet their regulatory obligations and strategic objectives.
Prior to joining Harter Secrest & Emery, Taitt-Harmon was an attorney with the New York City offices of Mintz Levin, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and Paul Hastings. She earned a J.D. from Cornell Law School and a B.S., cum laude, from St. John’s University.
Harter Secrest & Emery is a New York-based law firm with a nationally recognized Securities and Capital Markets practice. The firm advises issuers and underwriters in public and private securities offerings and regularly collaborates with boutique investment banks on sophisticated transactions. Clients range from emerging companies to Fortune 100 corporations. The firm’s securities attorneys regularly advise boards of directors and management teams on SEC compliance, corporate governance, public and private securities offerings, NYSE and Nasdaq listing standards, direct listings, state securities regulation and mergers and acquisitions. The firm’s securities attorneys also advise investment advisers and broker-dealers on compliance with SEC and FINRA regulations.