Karl Okamoto Director of Business and Entrepreneurship Law Concentration Associate Professor of Law Email: Karl.Okamoto@drexel.edu Phone: 215-571-4761 Office: Earle Mack School of Law, Room 416

Education
J.D., Columbia University School of Law
B.A., magna cum laude, Columbia University

Karl Okamoto is an expert in corporate, venture capital, private equity and securities law and corporate finance. He has deep experience as both an attorney and as an investor.

Professor Okamoto earned his J.D. at Columbia University School of Law, where he was the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, managing editor of the Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems and served on the Jessup International Moot Court Team.

He was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and at Dechert before working as a consultant for Soros Fund Management and becoming senior managing director for Atticus Capital LP. He served as executive officer and board member of Harvest Book Company LLC and on the board of Champps Entertainment Inc. He currently serves on the board of Cosi Inc.

Professor Okamoto’s previous teaching experience includes full-time faculty posts at the Rutgers School of Law in Camden and the University of Alabama School of Law.

His research focuses on securities and corporate law. His articles include "After the Bailout: Regulating Systemic Moral Hazard" in the UCLA Law Review, "Reputation and the Value of Lawyers," in the Oregon Law Review, and "Oversimplification and the SEC’s Treatment of Derivative Securities Trading by Corporate Insiders," in the Wisconsin Law Review. Two of Professor Okamoto’s articles have been chosen for republication in the prestigious Corporate Practice Commentator.

Professor Okamoto is a frequent presenter to both professional and academic audiences. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Legal Times. He has been a guest blogger on The Conglomerate. Professor Okamoto has served as an expert on various corporate and securities law issues.

He has served on the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups and co-organized the First Annual Asian Pacific American Law Professors’ Conference. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Corporate Governance at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.

Read Karl Okamoto’s ongoing analysis of the unfolding financial crisis at "The Conglomerate," where he is guest blogging "http://www.theconglomerate.org/."