Katherine Litvak
Professor of Law
Phone
(312) 503-2713
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Assistant
LynToya Pate
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-1933
Assistant Email
lyntoya.pate@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Katherine Litvak's areas of expertise include venture capital, private equity, corporate and securities law, and corporate finance. She has previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Law, a clerk for both the Hon. Ralph K. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, as well as a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Columbia Law School. She has presented at more than 50 national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars. Litvak received her BA from the University of California-Los Angeles, an MA in international relations from Harvard, her JD from Stanford Law School.
Areas of Expertise
- Securities & Finance
Selected Publications
- The Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Non-US Companies Cross-Listed in the US, 13 Journal of Corporate Finance 195 (2007).
- Venture Capital Limited Partnership Agreements: Understanding Compensation Arrangements, 76 University of Chicago Law Review 161 (2009).
- Governance Through Exit: Default Penalties and Walkway Options in Venture Capital Partnership Agreements, 40 Willamette Law Review 771 (2004).
- Does Reputation Limit Opportunistic Behavior in the VC Industry? Evidence from Litigation Against VCs, 67 Journal of Finance 2215 (2012) (Co-authored by: Vladimir Atanasov & Vladimir Ivanov).
Education
- BA, University of California, Los Angeles
- MA, Harvard University
- JD, Stanford Law School
Prior Appointments
- Benjamin Mazur Summer Research Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law