About
Walter Jospin’s practice specializes in SEC and different securities regulatory enforcement matters, company governance, inner investigations, and SEC Whistleblower Claims.
Mr. Jospin is the previous Director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in which he served from February 2015 till January 2018. As Regional Director, he led over a hundred and ten attorneys, accountants, and compliance examiners in the workplace’s Enforcement and Examination programs, which cover Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina. During his 3-yr tenure, Mr. Jospin supervised many enforcement moves referring to economic and accounting fraud, disclosure failures, audit failures, supplying frauds, Ponzi schemes, violations of the Investment Advisors Act, municipal securities, and insider trading.
Early in his career, Mr. Jospin was a staff attorney with the Division of Enforcement of the SEC in Atlanta, in which he investigated and litigated economic and accounting fraud instances, such as the first accounting case beneath the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Prior to joining the SEC in February of 2015, Mr. Jospin was a protracted-time partner inside the worldwide law workplace of Paul Hastings LLP, wherein he turned into a member of the corporation’s Policy Committee and Unit Committee, and Chair of the Atlanta Office Corporate Department. At Paul Hastings, he specialised in company governance, internal investigations, securities regulatory enforcement, securities compliance, and company transactions.
Mr. Jospin has been identified as a main corporate and securities attorney through Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who Legal Georgia, Who’s Who of International Mergers & Acquisition Lawyers, Georgia Super Lawyers, and Corporate Counsel Super Lawyers. He served as Chair of the Business Law Section, and Chair of the Securities Committee, of the State Bar of Georgia. He has been an accessory professor at Emory Law School.
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Location
Legal Issues
- White Collar Crime
- Securities Law
- Stockbroker & Investment Fraud
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner
Finch McCranie, LLP
2018 - Director, Atlanta Regional Office
Securities & Exchange Commission
2015 - Partner
Paul Hastings
1999
Educations
Graduation year: 1979
Graduation year: 1974
