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Tel: 215.898.5637
Fax: 215.573.6783
Email: rclayton@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate and Financial Law
- Emerging Businesses
Bio
Rebecca Clayton brings a wealth of varied experience in corporate and financial law to the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (formerly known as the Small Business Clinic).
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Rebecca Clayton brings a wealth of varied experience in corporate and financial law to the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (formerly known as the Small Business Clinic). Through her work in the Clinic, she teaches and supervises students serving as counsel in a wide range of transactional matters and represents for profit and nonprofit entrepreneurs. She also participates in community workshops on topics relevant to entrepreneurs and gives presentations on business law matters.
Prior to joining the Law School faculty, Clayton practiced several years in a large law firm and the law department of a Fortune 500 corporation. During her years of law firm practice, she represented public and private companies in a wide range of matters, including equity and debt financings and information technology transactions. As in house counsel, she was instrumental in the broad-based review, analysis and application of corporate governance and financial reporting reforms arising from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and related SEC and NYSE rules. As part of this responsibility, she educated the corporation’s legal and accounting staffs regarding these expansive, historic new legal requirements.
Clayton also remains active in community service, including through her work with the Philadelphia Futures mentoring program, the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and a local day care center for low- to moderate-income families. She draws upon these experiences, as well as her early practice as a legal advocate with the Hale & Dorr Legal Services Center (in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts), to provide her expertise to the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic and the Law School.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law – Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer (2004 -)
CIGNA Corporation – Counsel, Corporate and Financial Law (2002-04)
Pepper Hamilton LLP – Associate (1997-2002)
Hale & Dorr Legal Services Center – Legal Advocate (1995-97)
Representative Publications
Book Note, Somalia: the Missed Opportunities by Mohamed Sahnoun, 8 HARV. HUM. RTS. J. 301 (1995).
Mentor, Philadelphia Futures (2001 -).
Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (2000 -).
Member, Board of Directors, Bethel Bryn Mawr Child Care & Development Center (1997 -).
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