Haley Sylvester

Research Fellow

Haley Sylvester Headshot


Haley is the Clinical Fellow at Cardoza Law School’s Filmmakers Legal Clinic, formerly The Indie Film Clinic. Prior to coming to NYU, she served as counsel to former Commissioner Robert J. Jackson, Jr. at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she advised the Commissioner on novel and complex issues in securities regulation, financial regulation, and corporate governance. Before joining the SEC, Haley served as law clerk to the Honorable Pierre N. Leval on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Previously, she was a restructuring and finance associate at the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Haley is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (B.A.), Columbia Law School (J.D.), and the London School of Economics (LL.M.). 

 

Publications 

Hu, Edwin and Mitts, Joshua and Sylvester, Haley, Index-Fund Governance: An Empirical Study of the Lending-Voting Tradeoff (August 13, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3673531 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3673531

It's Not the Time to Fight Over Poison Pills, op-ed with Edward B. Rock (Bloomberg Opinion)