Sherri J. Starr is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group and the Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Practice Area.
Sherri advises public companies and their boards of directors on a wide range of corporate law matters, including corporate governance and other ESG matters, compliance with U.S. federal securities laws and requirements of the major U.S. stock exchanges, executive compensation practices, shareholder engagement and activism matters, insider trading and other company policies, and responses to SEC inquiries. She also has experience advising nonprofit organizations on issues related to corporate governance. In addition, Sherri has represented publicly and privately held companies in a variety of transactional matters, including initial public offerings and follow-on offerings.
She earned her Juris Doctor cum laude in 2017 from Georgetown University Law Center. While in law school, Sherri was the Senior Notes Editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law and a student attorney in the Community Justice Project Clinic. She also served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Charles F. Lettow of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Sherri graduated summa cum laude in 2014 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.
Sherri is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia.
Capabilities
- Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance
- Capital Markets
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Credentials
Education:
- Georgetown University - 2017 Juris Doctor
- University of Pennsylvania - 2014 Bachelor of Science
Admissions:
- District of Columbia Bar
- New York Bar