Claudia H. Allen chairs Neal Gerber Eisenberg’s Corporate Governance Practice Group, co-chairs the firm’s Corporate Board Services Practice Group and is a member of its Corporate & Securities Practice Group. Claudia provides on-going counsel to boards, management and investors in public and private companies with respect to corporate governance matters (notably, those raised by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the corporate governance reforms of the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ) and related issues, such as anti-takeover measures. Her practice also focuses on transactional matters, including private and public mergers and acquisitions, securities matters and the formation of domestic and international joint ventures.

In 2006, Claudia conceived and directed a study of majority voting in director elections. Her widely-cited study examines those companies responding to the majority vote movement, how and why such companies have been responding and the trends revealed by their responses. Claudia has continued to update the study to reflect the significant developments in this area. Her perspective and depth of knowledge on majority voting and other governance issues has positioned her as a sought after commentator and author. She has appeared on CNBC’s Power Lunch and been sought out for commentary or as an author by notable publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Corporate Counsel, The Chicago Tribune, Agenda, Business Finance, CFO.com, Compliance Week, BNA’s Corporate Accountability Report, The Corporate Board, LJN's Corporate Compliance and Regulatory Newsletter, Corporate Secretary, Crain’s Chicago Business, Directors & Boards, Directorship, Dow Jones Corporate Governance, Dow Jones Newswires, Financial Executive, Handelsblatt (Germany), The Independent (London), MarketWatch, Reuters, Securities Litigation Report, BNA’s Securities Regulation & Law Report and Pensions & Investments.

Claudia is also a recognized speaker on issues relating to corporate governance, having made presentations to organizations including the American Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

Claudia was appointed to the Committee on Corporate Laws of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association, effective August 2007. The Committee on Corporate Laws has jurisdiction over the Model Business Corporation Act, which is followed in whole or in part by a majority of states. She was named to the Executive Committee of Northwestern University School of Law's annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute for 2008 and was named Vice Chair for 2009. The Institute is designed to provide private practitioners and corporate counsel with a timely analysis of current securities and corporate law developments confronting publicly and privately held corporations.

Claudia was admitted to the New York bar in 1987 and the Illinois bar in 1994. She is a member of The Chicago Bar Association; the American Bar Association, Section of Business Law; The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and the Finance Committee of The Greater Chicago Food Depository.

In 1982, Claudia graduated, magna cum laude, with a B.A. (with distinction) from Yale University. She earned her J.D. from Columbia University in 1986, where she was a James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a teaching fellow.

• New York, 1987
• Illinois, 1994

• Yale University (B.A., 1982) magna cum laude
• Columbia University School of Law (J.D., 1986) James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar