Rebecca Simmons

About Rebecca Simmons

Rebecca Simmons represents clients in the structuring and development of financial products, novel securities and structured transactions; in the restructuring of those transactions and companies engaged in those transactions; and in regulated transactions such as the development of new lines of business and corporate acquisitions. She leads the Firm\'s resolution planning practice, and participates in industry efforts to improve the resiliency and resolvability of systemically significant financial institutions, as well as the Firm\'s practice advising payment systems. Her expertise includes U.S. banking and commodities laws and regulation, bankruptcy and insolvency issues relating to complex transactions, corporate restructuring, derivatives structuring and regulation, U.S. securities laws and capital markets transactions. Ms. Simmons has worked with a broad range of credit risk transfer and credit-risk mitigation techniques. She advises clients with respect to trading and settlement issues in both cash and derivative instruments, and assists in developing systems to mitigate credit risk. She also advises clients with respect to U.S. disclosure and corporate governance requirements, particularly as they apply to non-U.S. issuers.Ms. Simmons is the former chair of the Business Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and has been a member of the Committee on Futures Regulation and the Committee on Banking Law of the New York City Bar Association. She is a member of the advisory board of Legal Information for Families Today; the American Bankruptcy Institute; the board of the New York chapter of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce; Columbia Law School’s board of visitors; the advisory boards of Columbia’s Center for Corporate Governance and the Columbia Transactional Studies Program; and the President’s Advisory Council of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.Attorney Advertising Notice. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Experience

1. Partner

   Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

   Aug 1991 — Present

Education

• Harvard University

  A.B., Russian and Soviet Studies

  1980 — 1984

• Columbia Law School

  J.D., Law

  1988 — 1991

Skills

• Financial Institutions
• Derivatives
• Swaps
• Restructuring
• Credit
• Fixed Income
• Creditors' Rights
• Credit Risk
• Risk Management
• Structured Products
• Credit Derivatives