WilmerHale

Partner

Co-Chair, Corporate Governance and Disclosure Group

Lillian Brown is a partner in the Transactional and Securities Departments and Co-Chair of the Corporate Governance and Disclosure Group in the Corporate Practice Group. Ms. Brown advises clients, including public companies and their boards, on federal securities law compliance and corporate governance matters. She has extensive experience in SEC reporting and disclosure requirements, proxy and annual meeting matters, shareholder activism and engagement, shareholder proposals, and ESG matters. Ms. Brown works with a diverse range of companies, from Fortune 500 to private companies, spanning multiple industries including financial services and FinTech, technology, entertainment, consumer products, security, biotechnology and retail. Prior to joining the firm in 2013, Ms. Brown spent nearly 14 years at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Division of Corporation Finance. In her time at the SEC, among other roles, Ms. Brown served as Senior Special Counsel to the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance and Special Counsel in the Office of Mergers and Acquisitions.

Ms. Brown serves as Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association's Federal Regulation of Securities Committee and previously served as Chair of the Committee’s Subcommittee on Proxy Statements and Business Combinations.  Ms. Brown co-chairs PLI’s Corporate Governance Master Class and PLI’s Directors’ Institute on Corporate Governance. She is also an Advisory Board member for the Securities Regulation Institute and a Fellow in the American College of Governance Counsel. Additionally, she serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor. Ms. Brown previously served as an elected member on the DC Bar's Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Steering Committee from 2014-2017 and as a member of the NASDAQ Hearings Panel from 2013-2017. Ms. Brown also served as a member of the Capitol Hill Day School Board of Trustees in a number of positions from 2011–2020, most recently as Chair from 2017–2020.

Ms. Brown is a frequent speaker and author on corporate governance and SEC reporting and disclosure-related topics.

JD, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 1999 BA, Political, Mills College, 1994