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Sidley Austin LLP

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Sidley Austin LLP is ‘very well versed in current best practice and developing trends in the Board Governance arena’, assisting market-leading technology, telecommunications, and financial corporations, helping the client satisfy their fiduciary duties as well as ensuring that they remain Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Compliant. The practice is jointly led by Holly Gregory in New York, who excels at dealing with problems raised by activist investors, proxy contests, and CEO transitions, alongside Chicago’s John Kelsh , a public company specialist who focuses on ensuring that clients abide by the relevant securities law and regulation, implementing best practices for the boards to follow.
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  • ‘Sidley provides helpful perspective from working with many F500 Boards across a number of different issues and opportunities. They are also very well-versed in current best practices and developing trends in the Board Governance arena. We have specifically brought them on board to help us develop the right future-facing strategy for Board refreshment/recruitment, Board and Committee evaluations, and general perspective across a number of other areas.’

  • ‘Holly Gregory is a balanced expert in all areas that we have explored with Sidley. She integrates the company's issues, opportunities, and priorities easily and provides guidance and perspective. She delineates in her POV between what is crucial and/or best practice vs. what is merely advisable, given the circumstances. She helps the Board take into account several factors so that we can make the best-informed decisions.’

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Key clients

  • Columbia University and Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.

Lawyers

Practice head

Holly J. Gregory; John P. Kelsh

Other key lawyers

Sonia Gupta Barros; Paul L. Choi