Rebecca C. Grapsas is an associate in the Corporate department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and is a member of the Public Company Advisory Group, based in the New York office. Rebecca counsels corporate directors and managers of US public companies and US-listed foreign private issuers, institutional investors and not-for-profit organizations with respect to governance issues, including board and committee responsibilities and structure, investigations, disclosure and compliance with corporate and securities laws, regulations and listing rules. Representative clients include AIG, BRAC USA, Cardinal Health, Comverse Technology, Disney, General Electric, MGM Mirage, Planned Parenthood, Signet Jewelers, Sotheby’s, Texas Instruments, Thomson Reuters, Tyco Electronics, Visteon, Willis and Yahoo!.
Rebecca is a regular guest lecturer on corporate governance at the Yale School of Management and has assisted in corporate governance programs sponsored by the OECD, the U.S. State Department, the Practising Law Institute, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the International Corporate Governance Network, the Council of Institutional Investors and the Council on Foreign Relations. Rebecca served on the Secretariat of the OECD Boardroom Guide Advisory Group and was the editor of “Using the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance - A Boardroom Perspective.” She has written several articles on governance-related topics and is a co-author of the Corporate Law chapter of The Corporate Counsellor’s Deskbook and the Corporate Governance—United States chapter of “Getting the Deal Through.”
Rebecca was named a “Rising Star of Corporate Governance” for 2008 by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management.
Rebecca received her law degree (with first class honors) and her Bachelor of Commerce degree in 2000 from the University of Melbourne, where she was on the editorial board of the Melbourne University Law Review. Rebecca practiced at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Melbourne, Australia for several years before completing a Masters of Law at Harvard Law School. She joined the firm in 2004.