Alan L. Beller is a partner based in the New York office.
Mr. Beller’s practice focuses on a wide variety of complex securities, corporate governance and corporate matters. Mr. Beller advises regularly senior officials of both U.S. and non-U.S. entities on these subjects, including in connection with SEC filings, corporate transactions and other corporate matters and public and private offerings of securities.
Mr. Beller served as the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as Senior Counselor to the Commission from January 2002 until February 2006. During his four-year tenure, Mr. Beller led the Division in producing the most far-reaching corporate governance, financial disclosure and securities offering reforms in Commission history. Among his accomplishments were the implementation of the corporate provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the adoption of corporate governance standards for listed companies and the successful completion of comprehensive securities offering reforms.
Notable transactions in which Mr. Beller has been involved include the demutualization and initial public offering of Prudential Insurance Company, the initial public offering of Goldman Sachs, the initial public offering of Instinet, the privatization and initial public offering of Singapore Telecom, the initial U.S. offering of Samsung, the privatization and initial public offering of Pohang Iron and Steel (Korea), a private U.S. equity investment in Kookmin Bank (Korea) and the sale of Kidder Peabody to Paine Webber.
Mr. Beller is a frequent panelist and speaker at directors’ conferences, including the Stanford, Duke and Vanderbilt conferences, and often chairs or speaks at leading conferences regarding securities law, corporate governance and corporate law matters. He has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at New York University and is one of the authors of
U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Markets. Mr. Beller is distinguished as a "star performer" and ranked in the top tier for leading individuals in capital markets by both
Chambers Global and
Chambers USA, and was featured in
Chambers USA's "spotlight table" for his securities regulation advisory practice. In addition, he is recognized by
The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, the
PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, the
Legal Media Group Guides and
The Legal 500 as one of the best lawyers in the United States. Mr. Beller was named "Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year" by
Who's Who Legal 2009.
Mr. Beller originally joined the firm in 1976, became partner in 1984 and returned to Cleary Gottlieb in August 2006. From 1977 to 1981, he was resident in the Paris office and from 1990 to 1993, he was resident in the Tokyo office. Mr. Beller received a J.D. degree,
magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and graduated from Yale College,
cum laude, in 1971.
Mr. Beller is a member of the Board of Directors of The Travelers Companies, Inc. and a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Mr. Beller is a member of the Bar in New York.