Holly J. Gregory counsels companies and boards of directors on the full range of governance issues, including fiduciary duties, risk oversight, conflicts of interest, board and committee structure, board leadership structures, audit committee investigations, board audits and self-evaluation processes, shareholder initiatives, proxy contests, relationships with shareholders and proxy advisory firms, compliance with legislative, regulatory and listing rule requirements, and governance "best practice." Representative clients include Comverse Technology, The Ford Foundation, J. C. Penney, Prudential, The Shaw Group, Tyco Electronics, and Visteon.

Ms. Gregory played a key role in drafting the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and has advised the Internal Market Directorate of the European Commission on corporate governance regulation, and the joint OECD/World Bank Global Corporate Governance Forum on governance policy for developing and emerging markets.

In addition to her legal practice and policy efforts, Ms. Gregory has helped organize governance-related programs for the SEC, OECD, World Bank, Yale’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, and Transparency International, among others. She has lectured extensively on governance topics, including at events in Europe and Asia, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), the Conference Board, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The author of numerous articles on governance-related topics, she writes a monthly column on governance issues for Practical Law.

Ms. Gregory is founding co-chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s Subcommittee on International Corporate Governance Developments and serves by invitation on the ABA Corporate Laws Committee. She chaired an ABA Task Force on the Delineation of Governance Roles & Responsibilities which delivered its report to Congress and the SEC in August, 2009. Ms. Gregory is a member of the NACD’s director education faculty and has served on a number of the NACD’s Blue Ribbon Commissions. She serves as pro bono counsel to the New York City Opera and other not for profit institutions.

A summa cum laude graduate of, and former executive editor of the Law Review at, New York Law School, Ms. Gregory served as a law clerk to the Honorable Roger J. Miner, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, before joining Weil. Ms. Gregory was elected to the Board of Trustees of New York Law School in 2009.

Ms. Gregory is widely recognized for her governance work, including most recently as: the leading practitioner in corporate governance law in the Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law (July 2010); among the "100 Most Influential Players in Corporate Governance" (NACD/Directorship 100), Directorship Magazine, 2009, 2008 and 2007; and a "Leading Practitioner in Corporate Governance" in The International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers 2009 and 2008.