The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Thu, 07 May 2026 11:32:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png “Bold” Enforcement Envisioned following the Confirmation of Mary Jo White As SEC Chair – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 “Bold” Enforcement Envisioned following the Confirmation of Mary Jo White As SEC Chair https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/04/25/bold-enforcement-envisioned-following-the-confirmation-of-mary-jo-white-as-sec-chair/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bold-enforcement-envisioned-following-the-confirmation-of-mary-jo-white-as-sec-chair https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/04/25/bold-enforcement-envisioned-following-the-confirmation-of-mary-jo-white-as-sec-chair/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:21:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=43855?d=20150112121027EST Posted by Noam Noked, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Thursday, April 25, 2013
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from Michael D. Trager, senior partner at Arnold & Porter LLP and chair of the firm’s Securities Enforcement Practice. This post is based on a Arnold & Porter memorandum; the full text, including footnotes, is available here. An update to this memo is available here.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is undergoing a period of transition due to a series of recent changes in top leadership positions. On April 8, 2013, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Mary Jo White as the new Chairman of the SEC, and, on April 10, she was officially sworn in as the 31st Commission Chairman. White succeeds Elisse Walter, who replaced Mary Schapiro as Chairman in December 2012. Moreover, in February 2013, Enforcement Division Director Robert Khuzami stepped down, and Walter appointed George Canellos as Acting Director of the Enforcement Division; it is anticipated that White will name the permanent Enforcement Division Director shortly.

This post discusses recent public statements by top enforcement officials regarding the SEC’s enforcement priorities, trends, and strategies. In particular, this post discusses White’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on March 12, 2013, in which she outlined her vision for the SEC and promised continued aggressive enforcement. This post also discusses statements by top officials at the annual SEC Speaks conference on February 22 and 23, 2013, which reviewed recent enforcement efforts and previewed the Enforcement Division’s priorities in the year ahead.

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