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Celia A. Soehner

Associate

Celia A. Soehner focuses her practice on advising public companies with respect to corporate governance, federal securities laws, stock exchange and executive compensation matters. She also advises clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions and capital market transactions.

Extended Profile

Previously, Celia served for more than five years as an attorney-advisor with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Division of Corporation Finance. While at the SEC, Celia worked on a number of transactional and securities compliance matters specific to large financial institutions, including bank holding companies, investment advisers and alternative investment companies. Celia has experience with securities disclosure issuers affecting initial public offerings, debt and equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions, as well as issuer reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Celia received the 2011 Chairman’s Award for Excellence.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Celia worked as a corporate finance associate for a large national law firm.

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, 2015, LL.M, Securities and Financial Regulation
  • Brooklyn Law School, 2008, JD
  • Fordham University, 2005, BA, International Political Economy and French, cum laude

Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • New York
  • New Jersey

Publications

7/23/2018 - SEC Amends Rule 701, Issues Concept Release on Modernizing Employee Offerings

5/21/2018 - Division of Corporation Finance Issues New Proxy Guidance

10/26/2017 - SEC Approves New PCAOB Standard on Enhanced Audit Reports

1/4/2016 - SEC Reproposes Rules for Resource Extraction Issuers

News

4/11/2017 - Morgan Lewis Represents Southern Light in $700M Sale to Uniti Group Inc.

Events

9/27/2018 - Corporate Governance and Fiduciary Duties

4/25/2017 - Morgan Lewis Public Company Academy

1/12/2017 - 2017 Securities and Executive Compensation Updates (Pittsburgh)