Roel Campos, a partner in our Washington, D.C. office, is the Firm's National Chair of Securities Regulation and Enforcement.
Mr. Campos' practice consists of advising and defending corporate management teams and boards of directors with respect to SEC enforcement, FCPA and internal investigations, criminal prosecutions, securities and international regulation, and corporate governance.
Mr. Campos was recently named to President Barack Obama's Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, the oldest and one of the most prestigious of the Presidential citizens advisory boards.
Beginning in 2002, Mr. Campos was appointed twice by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and served until 2007.
Mr. Campos served for five years as the Commission's liaison to the international regulatory community and became well known among international regulators. Mr. Campos also facilitated the development of international auditing and accounting standards through his work as Chair of the Monitoring Group and Vice Chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
During his tenure, Commissioner. Campos presided over hundreds of complex enforcement cases, applying the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Mr. Campos has spoken and published extensively in the areas of the implementation of the Dodd Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate governance, director liability, corporate penalties, international accounting and auditing standards, Securities Act reform, SRO and market reform, retirement investment protection, research analyst conflicts, and the internationalization of the securities markets.
Prior to being nominated to the Commission, Mr. Campos was one of two principal owner-executives of El Dorado Communications, a radio broadcasting company, at its headquarters in Houston. He began his career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. After attending Harvard Law School, he worked in Los Angeles for major law firms as a corporate transactions/securities lawyer and litigator. Mr. Campos also served as a federal prosecutor for five years in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. He prosecuted complex and violent narcotics cartels and, in a celebrated trial, convicted defendants for the kidnapping and murder of a DEA Agent.
Mr. Campos is a founding member of the New America Alliance, a Latino initiative for raising awareness of investment opportunities in the Latino sector in the United States.
Education
- J.D., Harvard Law School, 1979
- M.B.A., University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management, 1972
- B.S., United States Air Force Academy, 1971
Bar Admissions
- California
- Texas
- District of Columbia
Languages
Publications & Presentations
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Co-Author,
"
Locke Lord QuickStudy: Business Opportunities for Chinese Bank Acquisitions of U.S. Banks
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Locke Lord
(July 26, 2012)
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Panelist,
"Global Capital Markets Prospectives in 2012,"
Practising Law Institute, New York
(April 25, 2012)
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Speaker,
"Regulation & Risk Thought Leadership Symposium™,"
Regulatory Compliance Association, New York
(April 16, 2012)
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Panelist,
"Council of Institutional Investors’ Spring Conference – ‘Shaping the Future’,"
Securities Litigation Panel
(April 3, 2012)
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Speaker,
"Demonize the Executives: Corporate Governance in a Post Dodd-Frank World,"
MCCA 11th Annual CLE Expo, Chicago
(March 21, 2012)
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"Avoiding U.S. Securities Litigation Liability for Directors & Officers of Chinese Companies,"
Locke Lord
(March 2012)
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Speaker,
"6th Real Estate Private Equity Summit,"
iGlobal Forum
(March 7, 2012)
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Speaker,
"The SEC Speaks in 2012,"
Practising Law Institute
(February 24-25, 2012)
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Interviewed,
"Roel Campos on Standardizing Accounting Principles, Self-Funding the SEC,"
Bloomberg Brief
(February 24, 2012)
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Speaker,
"Board Diversity and Composition: Hiring, Firing and Evaluating the New Realities of Governance,"
Seventh Annual Directors’ College for Stanford University
(June 21, 2011)
Professional Affiliations & Achievements
- Named to Washington, DC Super Lawyers (2012-2013)
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