Claudia H. Allen chairs Neal Gerber Eisenberg’s Corporate Governance 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 and related issues, such as shareholder activism and anti-takeover measures. Her practice also focuses on transactional matters, including private and public mergers and acquisitions and securities matters.

In 2006, Claudia conceived and directed a longitudinal study of majority voting in director elections. Her landmark study, which has been widely cited, examined how and why companies were responding to the majority vote movement over time, and the trends revealed by their responses. Her perspective and depth of knowledge on majority voting and other governance issues has made her a sought after commentator and author for notable publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Corporate Counsel, CFO.com, Crain’s Chicago Business, Directors & Boards, Directorship, Handelsblatt (Germany), Nikkei (Japan), The Independent (London), AP, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, MarketWatch, Reuters and The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. She has also appeared on CNBC’s Power Lunch.

Claudia is 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 Chairman of the 30^th Annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute at Northwestern University Law School (2010), and has been a speaker and member of the Planning Committee for the Institute since 2007. 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 is also a member of the Advisory Board of BNA's Corporate Accountability Report.

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