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Karl Okamoto
Director of Business and Entrepreneurship Law Program
Associate Professor of Law
Email: Karl.Okamoto@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4761
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room 416
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Education
J.D. Columbia University School of Law
B.A. magna cum laude, Columbia University
Karl Okamoto knows corporate finance and corporate law, venture
capital, private equity and securities law, both as an attorney
and as an entrepreneur.
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 “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.
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.
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