David Sienko — Vice President and General Counsel at Hecla Mining Company

Mr. David C. Sienko has been Vice President and General Counsel of Hecla Mining Co. since January 29, 2010. Mr. Sienko served as a Partner of Bell Boyd & Lloyd LLC. He also served as a member of the Corporate Department and Chicago office at Bell Boyd. His practice areas were corporate and securities, capital markets, corporate governance, emerging companies, mergers and acquisitions, hedge funds and other pooled investment vehicles and white collar criminal defense and corporate investigations. He also concentrated his practice on transactional and compliance matters, including securities offerings and regulation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and hedge fund and private equity fund formation. Mr. Sienko also regularly advised companies on internal and external investigations. He is experienced in dealing with matters that relate to the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act, the Investment Advisers Act and the Investment Company Act, he has handled transactions related to public and private securities offerings, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, commercial finance, public finance and general corporate matters. Mr. Sienko assisted a publicly-traded client in connection with its reorganization into a holding company structure, including obtaining a no action letter from the SEC with respect to certain elements of the reorganization. He also performed several internal investigations at publicly-held companies involving accounting irregularities and options backdating. Mr. Sienko's representative transactions include representing, clients in connection with hedge fund formation, a client in connection with its formation of a private equity fund, audit committees and special committees in connection with internal investigations, public and private companies in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions transactions, public and private companies in securities offerings and managing SEC reporting for publicly-traded clients. Prior to joining Bell Boyd, he worked in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement. At the SEC, Mr. Sienko was responsible for investigating and prosecuting violations of the federal securities laws. Mr. Sienko participated in the successful litigation of cases involving market manipulation, insider trading and issuer fraud. He is admitted to practice in Illinois, Wisconsin and the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the Northern District of Texas. He is also a Member of the Association of SEC, where he is an alumnus. He is the author of several articles and publications, including The Aftermath of Derivatives Losses: Can Sophisticated Investors Invoke the Suitability Doctrine Under Current Law published in the DePaul Business Law Journal. Mr. Sienko holds a J.D. in 1994 from the Marquette University School of Law, where he received the American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in Constitutional Law, an LL.M. in securities and financial regulation in 1997 from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts in government and political theory in 1990 from Oberlin College.