Maureen Gershanik

Practice Areas

Maureen Gershanik practices primarily in the areas of corporate law and governance, securities law, and mergers and acquisitions.

Career

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.

Professional Memberships

• American Bar Association, Appointed Member, Corporate Laws Committee

• Louisiana State Bar Association, Past Chairperson and Council Member, Corporate and Business Law Section

• Louisiana State Law Institute, Member, Corporations Committee

Personal

• Greater New Orleans Foundation, Advisory Committee Member, Impact 100

• Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana, Member, Board of Directors

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

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

Education

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