Lori Zyskowski is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s New York office. She is a member of the Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance, and Financial Institutions Practice Groups. Ms. Zyskowski has extensive experience as a corporate securities and governance lawyer, with a focus on SEC compliance and disclosure issues, corporate governance best practices, state corporate laws, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and SEC regulations.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, she was an in-house corporate lawyer at General Electric. In her most recent role as Executive Counsel, Corporate, Securities & Finance, Ms. Zyskowski advised GE’s board of directors and senior management on corporate governance and securities law issues. She was responsible for outreach to institutional investors on governance and executive compensation issues and overseeing the company’s review and response to shareholder proposals. She oversaw the company’s periodic reporting, registered offerings, proxy statement and other SEC and NYSE filings. Ms. Zyskowski also advised on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and financial services regulatory matters.
Before that, Ms. Zyskowski was Corporate and Securities Counsel and Assistant Secretary at Pitney Bowes from 2006 to 2009. In that capacity, she served as the Secretary of the Audit Committee and Counsel to the Executive Compensation Committee of Pitney Bowes’ board of directors. She was responsible for managing the securities governance department, which oversaw director and officer ownership reporting and subsidiary management.
