Professional Biography
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Melissa J. Oka Senior Counsel

  • Chicago

    D +1.312.324.8483

    F +1.312.324.9483

    Chicago

    110 North Wacker Drive, 34th Floor

    Chicago, IL 60606

    +1.312.324.8483

    MOka@perkinscoie.com

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Overview

News

Insights

  • 11.2013 / 12.2013
    Removing a Director: A Board’s Duty of Oversight
    Articles

    The Corporate Governance Advisor

    One challenge of board governance is that although directors, particularly members of the nominating and governance committee, have a responsibility to oversee the healthy functioning of a board, it is the shareholders, not the board, who generally have the power to remove a director.

RELATED INFORMATION

Bar and Court Admissions

  • Illinois

Education

  • Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., Phi Delta Phi Honor Society, 2007, Articles Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review
  • University of Pennsylvania, B.A., Italian, summa cum laude, 2002

Languages

  • Italian