Elizabeth Ising is an associate in the Corporate Transactions Practice Group in Gibson Dunn's Washington, D.C. office.  Her practice focuses on corporate governance, securities regulation and disclosure issues as well as executive compensation (including Section 16 and Rule 144), mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, and public offerings and private placements of equity securities.

Ms. Ising has authored numerous articles on a variety of securities law issues, including a chapter for A Practical Guide to SEC Proxy and Compensation Rules, 2007, Prentice Hall; “Company Proposals to Declassify the Board,” Corporation, December 2005, Aspen Publishers; and "SEC Proposes Disclosure Rules Regarding Nominating Committees and Shareholders' Communications with Board Members," Insights – The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, September 2003.  Ms. Ising also authored updates for the 2003 – 2006 editions of Preparing for Your Annual Meeting, Bowne & Co., and a chapter for Corporate Governance: Law and Practice, 2005 supplement, Lexis Nexis.  She has appeared as a speaker at seminars about a variety of securities law and corporate governance issues, including presentations for the District of Columbia Bar – Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section and the American Bar Association.  Ms. Ising is a member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP).  She is also Vice Chair, Corporate Finance Committee; Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar, 2007.

Ms. Ising graduated with High Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000.  Ms. Ising was a member of Order of the Coif and was inducted into the James E. and Carolyn B. Davis Society.  She was a member of the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation.  The Journal published an article Ms. Ising authored titled Refusing to Debate Wheaties Versus Milchreis: Blondin v. Dubois and the Second Circuit's Interpretation of the Hague Abduction Convention's Grave Risk Exception.  Ms. Ising received her Bachelor of Science from James Madison University in 1992.

Ms. Ising is admitted to practice in the State of North Carolina and in the District of Columbia and is a member of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Diversity Committee.