About Leah

Leah’s practice focuses on general corporate and securities matters. She represents issuers and investment banks in capital markets transactions, as well as private and public companies across a wide range of matters. Her practice includes entity-formation, corporate governance, venture capital and other private financings, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings.

Leah is author of The Proxy Problem: Using Nonprofits to Solve Misaligned Incentives in the Proxy Voting Process. She also serves as Diversity and Inclusion Member-at-Large for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. 

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Admissions and credentials

  • Illinois

Education

  • University of Michigan Law School
    JD, 2020
  • University of Michigan
    BA, History and International Studies, 2017

Memberships and affiliations

  • American Bar Association (ABA)
  • Chicago Bar Association

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