Elizabeth Ising is a partner in the Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance 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).  She also advises several local non-profit organizations on corporate governance issues.  Ms. Ising was recently named as one of ten “Rising Stars of Corporate Governance” for 2009 by Yale School of Management’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance. 

Ms. Ising has authored numerous articles on a variety of securities law and corporate governance issues, including an article “Climate Change Disclosures in SEC Filings ‘Heat Up’”, Insights – The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, 2008; a chapter for A Practical Guide to SEC Proxy and Compensation Rules, 2008, Prentice Hall; “Company Proposals to Declassify the Board,” Corporations, 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, LexisNexis.  She has appeared as a speaker at seminars about securities law and corporate governance issues, including presentations for the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, The Corporate Counsel.net, the American Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar.  Ms. Ising is a member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals,  the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) and the National Advisory Board of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum.  She is also Chair of the Corporate Finance Committee; Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar. 

Ms. Ising graduated with high honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 2000.  She was a member of Order of the Coif and was inducted into the James E. and Carolyn B. Davis Society.  Ms. Ising was also a published member of the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation.  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 Global Diversity Committee.