Mr. Beals is a law clerk in Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department and is assigned to the Mergers and Acquisitions Group. He joined Davis Polk in 2007.

Mr. Beals graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and in 2007 received his J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an Internet editor of the Journal of Constitutional Law. He is proficient in Spanish.

He is the author of “A Review of the State Sovereignty Loophole in Intellectual Property Rights Following Florida Prepaid and College Savings,” 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1233 (2007).