David Berger
Senior Fellow
David Berger specializes in corporate governance, M&A, and securities litigation, as well as rapid response shareholder activism and corporate governance risk oversight. David’s practice is an unusual blend of corporate governance advisory work and litigation, and he is nationally recognized for his expertise in both the boardroom and the courtroom. David also represents directors and companies in internal investigations and public companies on disclosure and SEC proceedings.
David has been at Wilson Sonsini since 1989. Among other leadership roles, he has been a member of the firm’s board of directors and served as chair of the Policy Committee and chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. David has a BA magna cum laude from Duke University and a JD from Duke University School of Law.
Marco Dell'Erba
Academic Fellow
Marco Dell’Erba is Professor of Corporate & Financial Law at the University of Zurich, where he is also a member of the Blockchain Center and the Digital Society Initiative. He is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in the Science and Technology Innovation Program.
Marc Dell’Erba is the author of Technology in Financial Markets: Complex Change and Disruption (OUP, 2024) and his scholarship has appeared in leading American and European journals.
Marco Dell’Erba holds a JD summa cum laude from the University of Rome La Sapienza. He obtained his LL.M in Corporation Law at NYU School of Law, where he was a Global Hauser Scholar and served as Graduate Editor of the NYU Journal of Law & Business. He holds a PhD in private law and financial regulation from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a PhD in corporate and securities law from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Harald Halbhuber
Research Fellow
Harald Halbhuber has more than 20 years of experience in transactional practice at major global law firms, focused on structuring and executing complex corporate finance transactions. Prior to joining the Institute to pursue his research interests, Harald represented companies and investment banks in IPOs, high-yield and investment-grade bond offerings, equity and debt tender offers, and other financing and derivative transactions. Most recently, Harald's practice included work on multiple SPAC IPOs and other SPAC-related matters. In his practice, Harald also counseled clients on critical disclosure and financial reporting matters, an area in which he authored several publications. His 2017 article on debt restructurings was cited and followed by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Marblegate Asset Management v. Education Management. He has also written for Forbes and has been cited by WSJ Pro Bankruptcy. Harald holds law degrees from the University of Vienna (JD and SJD equivalents) and Harvard Law School (LL.M).
Edwin Hu
Research Fellow
Edwin Hu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NYU Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance where he writes on empirical law and finance. His current research is focused on financial advisors, institutional voting, and equity market structure. His scholarly and policy research has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and Stanford Law Review, and featured prominently across in major periodicals, including the Atlantic, Bloomberg, the Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the front page of The Wall Street Journal.
Previously, he was chief economist and counsel to Commissioner Robert J. Jackson Jr. at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He holds two bachelor’s degrees (in economics and applied computational math) from the University of Washington, a master’s degree and PhD in finance from Rice University, and a JD from NYU Law where he was a Furman Academic Scholar.
Kwon-Yong Jin
Research Fellow
Kwon-Yong Jin is pursuing a PhD in financial economics at the Yale School of Management. Prior to his doctoral studies, he was a corporate associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where his practice covered M&A, shareholder activism, capital markets, and financial institutions. He also served as a Captain in the Republic of Korea Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where he advised commanders and staff on a variety of international, administrative, and commercial law matters, and worked as a strategy director at the Seoul office of a global venture capital fund. His research on banking and securities regulation has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Journal of Financial Regulation, and the Brigham Young University Law Review.
Kwon-Yong holds an AB in economics, summa cum laude, from Harvard University, where he received the Sophia Freund Prize as the highest ranked summa cum laude graduate, and a JD from Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation and an Editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Allison Herren Lee
Senior Research Fellow
Former SEC Acting Chair and Commissioner Allison Herren Lee served as Commissioner from June 2019 through July 2022. She served as Acting Chair of the Commission from January 21, 2021, to April 17, 2021. During her tenure, Commissioner Lee focused on bringing transparency and accountability to markets on issues related to climate change and other ESG-related information.
Commissioner Lee has been a securities law practitioner for 25 years. She is a member of the American College of Governance Counsel, and has written, lectured, and taught courses internationally in Spain and Italy on financial regulation and corporate law. Commissioner Lee served for over a decade in various roles at the SEC, including as counsel to Commissioner Kara Stein and as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement’s Complex Financial Instruments Unit. In addition, she has served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, was a member of the American Bar Association’s former Committee on Public Company Disclosure, and participated on a USAID project in Armenia assisting in the drafting of periodic reporting and disclosure provisions for a comprehensive law of the Republic of Armenia on Securities Market Regulation.
Prior to government service, Commissioner Lee was a partner at Sherman & Howard LLC, focusing on securities, antitrust, and commercial litigation. A member of the Colorado bar, she holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Colorado and a JD from the University of Denver College of Law, where she was salutatorian and a Chancellor’s Scholar, and served on the Law Review.
Theodore N. Mirvis
Senior Fellow
Theodore N. Mirvis is Of Counsel in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Litigation Department. He has been with the firm for over 40 years and, during that time, has litigated some of the landmark cases regarding corporate governance issues, mergers and acquisitions, stockholders’ rights, and numerous other matters involving corporate and securities litigation. He is an expert on corporate defense. He has written extensively on topics ranging from white-collar crime, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and stockholder derivative suits, and is a regular lecturer at the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Law School.
Ted received a BA summa cum laude from Yeshiva University in 1973 and a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1976. During law school, he served as case officer and as a member of the Editorial Board of The Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Ted is a member of the American Law Institute, the Planning Committee of the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, and the Advisory Board of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance.