High Profile SEC Commissioner Roel Campos Joins Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell

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Former SEC Commissioner Roel Campos has joined Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell’s Washington, D.C., office as the National Chair of the Firm’s Securities Regulation and Enforcement Practice.

In this role, he will continue to advise corporate boards, executive teams and fund managers regarding raising capital, governance and strategic transactions. In addition, he will be part of the firm’s national White Collar/Internal Investigations Practice Group.

According to the press release at the firm’s website, while serving as a Commissioner at the SEC, Campos represented the SEC internationally and was selected by other international regulators as the Vice Chair of the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions. He has worked with securities regulators in Latin America, Asia, Europe and Australia, and also helped develop international auditing and account standards as Chair of the SEC’s Monitoring Group for the setting of International Standards of Audit. As a Commissioner, Campos also evaluated scores of securities enforcement cases involving allegations of fraud and breach of fiduciary duties.

  

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Campos was recently honored by President Obama by being selected as a member of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), an independent citizens advisory board. He previously served on the President Elect’s Economic Advisory Board to the Transition Team.

Firm Chair Jerry Clements was quoted as saying: “Roel brings to this Firm a stellar reputation and an established international track record in the legal and leadership arenas. He will help us strategically grow our national white collar and litigation practices and will work with Partners across Locke Lord to provide clients with unparalleled insight into today’s financial, securities, banking and capital markets areas.”

Global law firm Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP consistently ranks among American Lawyer’s top 100 U.S. law firms and employs nearly 650 attorneys, who serve clients in over thirty practice areas.