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Candace Beinecke

Candace Beinecke

Work Department

Corporate Department.

Position

Corporate transactions, governance and internal investigations.

Career

Candace K. Beinecke is the Senior Counsel of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, an international law firm ranked for 14 years, including five years in a row as the top-ranked New York-based firm, on The American Lawyer’s A-List of what the magazine calls “the top firms among the nation’s legal elite.” In 1999, she became the first female head of a major New York firm. Candace’s practice focuses on corporate governance and sensitive matters and investigations.

Candace serves as Chairperson of First Eagle Funds, Inc., a public mutual fund family; as Lead Independent Trustee of Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE); and as Co-Chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also serves as a Director of the Partnership for New York City, where she previously served as Vice Chair, and was the former Chair and a Trustee of The Wallace Foundation.

Languages

English.

Memberships

Board of Advisors, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law; Member, Women’s Forum.

Education

New York University, A.B.; Rutgers University School of Law, J.D.