Corporate advisory and governance
Practical and actionable advice on strategic and sensitive matters as well as day-to-day governance considerations.
Freshfields’ corporate advisory and governance practice advises public and private companies, senior management and boards of directors on a broad range of corporate governance, compliance and disclosure matters.
Our integrated offering covers day-to-day matters as well as time-sensitive, event-driven challenges. We combine current best practices with pragmatic advice, bringing our judgment to help clients address a broad range of issues, from everyday governance questions to the most sensitive situations that can pose reputational, regulatory or liability risks.
We do not adopt a one-size-fits-all approach, but rather provide tailored guidance at every stage of a company’s life cycle, including advising:
- Public companies of various sizes on routine SEC reporting and disclosure obligations, compensation and benefits programs, stakeholder engagement and ESG trends and developments, and strategy and execution on crisis management, litigation and activism scenarios
- Private companies at varying stages of growth on devising size-and-stage-appropriate governance (including dual class and public benefit corporation matters), structuring compensation and benefits programs, managing data governance and ethics, and transitioning from private to public
- Boards of directors on satisfying their fiduciary duties in connection with critical, high-profile issues and oversight in an environment where the risk landscape is constantly evolving
Our integrated corporate advisory and governance offering includes:
- Public and private company corporate governance matters
- Reporting and disclosure obligations
- Compensation and benefits programs
- Succession planning
- Shareholder engagement and activism defense and preparation
- Board and committee advice
- Shareholder litigation
- Capital markets and securities offerings
- Data privacy, data protection, and data governance and ethics
- Cybersecurity risk mitigation and response
- Investigations and crisis management
- Strategic and related party transactions
- ESG and sustainability advice
Our team
Pamela L. Marcogliese Head of US Corporate Advisory & Governance
New York, Silicon Valley
Lori D. Goodman Partner
New York
Brandon Gantus Partner
Silicon Valley
Nicole F. Foster Partner
New York
Sarah Ghulamhussain Counsel
Silicon Valley
Elizabeth K. Bieber Counsel
New York
Sebastian L. Fain Partner
New York
Jenny Hochenberg Partner
New York
Joseph Halloum Partner
Silicon Valley
Oliver J. Board Counsel
New York
Doru Gavril Partner
Silicon Valley
Michael Levitt Partner
New York
Taryn Zucker Counsel
New York
Brock Dahl Data privacy and security, Head of U.S. Fintech
Washington, DC, Silicon Valley
