Rebecca J. Simmons
Business Law Section
Rebecca J. Simmons of New
York (Sullivan and
Cromwell LLP) has been elected chair of the
Business Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.
Simmons received her undergraduate degree from
Harvard
University and earned her
law degree from Columbia Law School.
Simmons is a partner of Sullivan
& Cromwell's Corporate and Financial Group. She represents clients
in the structuring and development of financial products, novel
securities and structured transactions, as well as in regulated
transactions such as the development of new lines of business and
corporate acquisitions. Her practice areas include derivatives
structuring and regulation, U.S. securities
laws, U.S. banking and commodities laws and regulation, bankruptcy and
insolvency issues relating to complex transactions, and capital markets
transactions. She developed the first synthetic triple-A rated
derivatives products program for an insured U.S. bank, the first
synthetic securitization of swaps receivables, and works with a broad
range of credit risk transfer and credit-risk mitigation
techniques.
An active leader of the Association’s Business
Law Section, Simmons has served on the section’s executive
committee since 2000. She served as chair of the section’s
Committee on Futures Regulation and is a member of the Committee on
Derivatives and Structured Products Law. She was a member of the
Committee on Legal Aid.
Simmons is Second Vice-Chair and Fiscal Officer of the
New York City Bar’s Business Law Section. She also is a a member
of Board of Directors of the Lawyers Alliance for New York, Columbia Law
School's Board of Visitors, the Advisory Board of Columbia's Center for
Corporate Governance and the President's Advisory Council of the
Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
The 76,000-member New York State Bar Association is
the official statewide organization of lawyers in New
York and the largest
voluntary state bar association in the nation. Founded in 1876, NYSBA programs and activities have
continuously served the public and improved the justice system for more
than 130 years.
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