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Megan J. Penick

Megan's practice focuses on general corporate, business and securities transactions with a special focus on working with Chinese companies seeking to do business in the U.S.

Prior to joining Pryor Cashman, Megan worked as a Consultant at Goldman Sachs in its Hedge Fund Strategies Group and served as General Counsel at Global Holding and Investment Co., LLC.

Before embarking on her legal career, Megan spent nearly two years living and working in Beijing, China, where she served as the English-language editor at Women of China magazine, a publication of the All China Women's Federation, while pursuing Chinese language studies. 

Publications 

• Co-author (with Edward Normandin and David Parsly), SEC Adopts Amendments to Rule 144 and New Rules to Simplify Disclosure by Small Public Companies, Pryor Cashman Legal Update, November 2007

•  Co-author (with Edward Normandin), SEC Proposes Rules To Simplify Disclosure Obligations Of Small Public Companies, Pryor Cashman Legal Update, August 2007

•  Author, Arbitration and Investment in China: Without Transparency, Little Predictability, International Law Quarterly, a publication of the International Law Committee of the ABA Section of Litigation, Fall 2004, Vol. 20, Issue 2 (republished at Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, www.s-ox.com, on March 10, 2005)

• Author, Will Sarbanes-Oxley Force Small Companies to Privatize? Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, October 3, 2005 

Speaking Engagements

• Panel speaker, Salary Realities, New York Law School (March 2007)
• Moderator for presentation to senior executives of various Chinese state run organizations as part of University of Pennsylvania-SASAC training program on the impacts of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (September 2006)
• Panel speaker, A Look at The Real Practice of Law: In Private Practice, Corporate, Government, and Non-traditional Legal Settings, New York State Bar Association Student Council, NYSBA Annual Meeting, NY, NY (January 2005)

Teaching Positions

• Taught history and English in the bilingual-Chinese program at South Philadelphia High School from 1999-2000 
• From 1997-98, while working as an editor at Women of China Magazine, a publication of the All China Women's Federation in Beijing, Megan regularly lectured on the principles of Western-style journalism for the magazine's staff

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association 
• New York State Bar Association