Margaret McGuire, 2002 has been named senior counsel to the director and deputy director at the SEC effective May 2010. In her new position McGuire will serve as a senior policy adviser, providing assistance, support and advice for a wide range of issues presented to the office of the director. These include strategic initiatives, case monitoring and development, project management, policy development, legislative inquiries and speechwriting and public communications. McGuire will also represent the director’s office at internal and external meetings.
She joined the division in 2002, and was appointed as a branch chief in 2006. Her extensive experience in financial fraud investigations includes having worked on several complex accounting fraud matters. She has also assisted in the coordination of the SEC’s nationwide enforcement efforts related to options backdating. McGuire has conducted or supervised many investigations involving potential financial fraud, proxy violations, insider trading, touting/scalping, and violations of the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA. McGuire is a three-time recipient of the SEC’s Division Director’s Award, which saluted her work on cases involving financial fraud at Fannie Mae, FCPA violations at Monsanto, and document retention and production failures at Merrill Lynch, among other cases.
While a student at the Columbus School of Law, McGuire won a national Securities Law Moot Court Competition. She has taught intermediate financial accounting as an adjunct professor at Catholic University since 1999.
She joined the division in 2002, and was appointed as a branch chief in 2006. Her extensive experience in financial fraud investigations includes having worked on several complex accounting fraud matters. She has also assisted in the coordination of the SEC’s nationwide enforcement efforts related to options backdating. McGuire has conducted or supervised many investigations involving potential financial fraud, proxy violations, insider trading, touting/scalping, and violations of the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA. McGuire is a three-time recipient of the SEC’s Division Director’s Award, which saluted her work on cases involving financial fraud at Fannie Mae, FCPA violations at Monsanto, and document retention and production failures at Merrill Lynch, among other cases.
While a student at the Columbus School of Law, McGuire won a national Securities Law Moot Court Competition. She has taught intermediate financial accounting as an adjunct professor at Catholic University since 1999.
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