Debevoise & Plimpton LLP utilizes a multidisciplinary strategy in its corporate governance practice, bringing leading corporate lawyers and industrial experts into the team, led by William Regner and Maeve O’Connor out of New York. It handles matters for clients in a variety of industries but is particularly involved in the investment and insurance sectors. O’Connor’s experience extends to securities litigation and ensuring that clients remain regulatory compliant in their AI practices. Regner is well-regarded in the telecommunications and financial sectors, working with public companies on risk management, the structuring of board proposals, and damage control post-crisis. Gordon Moodie joined the firm in September 2024.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction
Key clients
- Match Group
- Warner Music Group
- SiriusXM Special Committee
- New York REIT
- MBIA
Work highlights
- Representing the Special Committee of Directors of Match Group in litigation pending in the Delaware Court of Chancery stemming from spin-off of Match Group from IAC/Interactive.
- Representing SiriusXM Special Committee to ensure alignment with the MFW guidelines.
- Representing the independent directors of a New York REIT, guiding them through a catalog of challenges, including responding to two activist investor campaigns, conducting an RFP to replace the REIT’s external manager, adopting a liquidation plan, and executing much of it ahead of the pandemic, and overseeing the delisting of the REIT from the New York Stock Exchange.
Lawyers
Practice head
William D. Regner; Maeve O’Connor
Other key lawyers
Susan Gittes; Eric Juergens