A former Attorney-Adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Penny focuses her practice on securities and corporate law issues, including matters involving the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and related SEC rules, Nasdaq and other Exchange corporate governance rules and other requirements, public and private offerings of securities, and general SEC compliance matters. She prepares all types of SEC filings, including registration statements, annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements, Section 16 filings, no-action requests and confidential treatment requests.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Court of Appeals of New Jersey

Supreme Court of New York

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Washington College of Law, The American University, J.D., summa cum laude, 1995

Phi Alpha Delta

Note and Comment Editor, The American University Journal of International Law and Policy, 1991-1992

State University of New York at Binghamton, B.S., summa cum laude, 1992

Alpha Mu Alpha, Honorary Marketing Society

National Dean's List

All-American Scholar

American Bar Association

Maryland State Bar Association

Section of Business Law

Committee of Securities Law

Author, "A Guide to the SEC's Revised Executive Compensation and Related Disclosure Rules," Business Law Brief, American University Washington College of Law, 2007

Author, "Recent Securities Law Developments," Maryland Bankers Association Maryland Weekly, 2007

Lecturer, "What Is A Security?" Maryland Judiciary and the Maryland State Bar Association Joint Bench Bar Conference, 2007

Co-author with Whitney Debevoise, "The United States of America," International Securities Law Handbook, Kluwer Law International, Second Edition, 2005

Associate, Arnold & Porter, LLP

Attorney-Adviser, Securities and Exchange Commission