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Rebecca Simmons is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell's Corporate and Financial Group. She represents clients in the structuring and development of financial products, novel securities and structured transactions, as well as in regulated transactions such as the development of new lines of business and corporate acquisitions. Her practice areas include derivatives structuring and regulation, U.S. securities laws, U.S. banking and commodities laws and regulation, bankruptcy and insolvency issues relating to complex transactions, and capital markets transactions. Ms. Simmons developed the first synthetic triple-A rated derivatives products program for an insured U.S. bank, the first synthetic securitization of swaps receivables, and works with a broad range of credit risk transfer and credit-risk mitigation techniques. 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 Second Vice-Chair and Fiscal Officer of the Business Law Section of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the former Chairman of the Committee on Futures Regulation of the New York State Bar Association, and has served as a member of the Committee on Futures Regulation and the Committee on Banking Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. In addition, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers Alliance for New York, Columbia Law School's Board of Visitors, the Advisory Board of Columbia's Center for Corporate Governance and the President's Advisory Council of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. | 