Allison Handy

Practice Areas

Corporate Law

Corporate Finance

Mergers & Acquisitions

Public Companies

Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Law

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)

Corporate & Securities

Capital Markets

Workplace Harassment

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance for Businesses

Board & Directors Advisory Group

Career

Allison Handy is a trusted advisor to companies and boards of directors on critical corporate governance, securities compliance, and capital markets transactions. She provides counsel to companies on a broad range of issues faced by management and directors, including securities law disclosure obligations, environmental and social sustainability disclosures, stock exchange listing requirements, internal investigations, fiduciary duties, and shareholder activism matters.

Allison is the firmwide co-chair of Perkins Coie’s Corporate & Securities practice. She is also a leader of the firm’s Environmental, Social, and Governance advisory team. Allison is a frequent speaker and author on corporate governance and securities law topics. She is the co-founder of the firm’s Public Chatter blog, and a co-editor and co-author of The Public Company Handbook: A Corporate Governance and Disclosure Guide for Directors and Executives (Sixth Edition, 2021). She also leads Perkins Coie’s engagement in OnBoarding Women, a Seattle-based program dedicated to increasing gender equity in public company boardrooms. Allison serves on the boards of directors of the Pacific Northwest Research