Danielle Benderly
Danielle provides practical corporate governance and securities regulation guidance for companies of all sizes across a range of industries.
Danielle Benderly counsels public companies on both everyday and esoteric corporate governance and securities regulation compliance issues, including U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, and stock exchange and SEC compliance, as well as insider trading and reporting under Section 13, Section 16, Rule 144, and Rule 10b-5. She works with clients ranging in size from small cap to Fortune 500 companies that span various industries, including retail, semiconductor, software, technology, energy, manufacturing, transportation, and biotech.
Danielle also advises public and emerging growth companies, as well as individual executives, regarding stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance stock units, other performance-based awards, employee stock purchase plans, and other stock-based executive compensation design, implementation, and interpretation issues.
In addition, Danielle provides efficient and practical securities compliance guidance for companies and investors involved in all types of public and private securities offerings, including initial public offerings, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions transactions, private equity transactions, secondary securities offerings, and tender offers.
Danielle is an author of the Executive Compensation Disclosure Handbook and a contributing author of the Public Company Handbook and the IPO Handbook.
Education & Credentials
Education
- UC Berkeley School of Law, (formerly Boalt Hall), J.D., 1996
- Wellesley College, B.A., Philosophy and Studio Art, cum laude, 1991
Bar and Court Admissions
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Oregon
Professional Recognition
Listed in Best Lawyers in America: Securities / Capital Markets Law, 2016-2025
Listed in Oregon Law and Politics, “Oregon Rising Stars,” 2008, 2011
Impact
Professional Leadership
- Perkins Coie Women's Forum Executive Board Member
- Perkins Coie Corporate Finance Updates, Co-Editor
- National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP)
- The Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals
- Oregon Women Lawyers
- American Bar Association
- Oregon State Bar Association
- Multnomah Bar Association
- Wellesley Club of Oregon
Insights
News
Professional Experience
Experience
Tavas 2 Holdings Investment
Represented Tavas 2 Holdings Limited as the local/U.S. counsel in its investment in Ucroo, Inc., provider of the leading student portal platform Campus.