Fishman Haygood LLP

Corporate and M&A

Maureen Brennan Gershanik is a partner in the firm’s Business Section. She practices primarily in the areas of corporate law and governance, securities law, and mergers and acquisitions. She also advises clients on ESG initiatives.

Maureen has an active business transactional and advisory practice. She works with clients on public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, acquisition transactions, restructuring transactions, business separations, new business formations, and other transactions. She also advises a range of public companies and private businesses and counsels boards of directors on corporate governance, securities law compliance, SEC reporting, executive employment matters, and executive compensation.

Additionally, Maureen is active in business law reform efforts in Louisiana and nationally. She is an appointed member of the Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association, which oversees and continually revises the ABA’s Model Business Corporation Act, one of the most significant responsibilities of the ABA’s Business Law Section. She is also a member of the Corporations Committee of the Louisiana State Law Institute, which was responsible for the comprehensive revision of the state’s corporation statute that took effect in 2015, and is currently re-drafting the Louisiana limited liability company statute.

She has been a speaker on securities and corporation law at legal seminars and graduate schools, and she serves as co-instructor of the Corporate Governance mini-course at Tulane University Law School.

Appointed Member, American Bar Association Corporate Laws Committee

Board Member, National Council of Jewish Women – Greater New Orleans

Board Member, Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana

Advisory Committee Member, Greater New Orleans Foundation Impact 100

Past Chairperson, Louisiana State Bar Association Section on Corporate and Business Law

Former Member,  Board of Trustees - Touro Synagogue (New Orleans)

J.D., Class Valedictorian, from Louisiana State University, 2000 B.S.F.S., cum laude, from Georgetown University, 1992