About
Marlon Paz is a partner inside the Washington, D.C. workplace of Locke Lord LLP wherein he concentrates his exercise on securities matters, enterprise litigation, white collar criminal protection and internal investigations. He has considerable experience with a extensive variety of complex securities problems, inside the regulatory and litigation context, inner investigations and compliance, together with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and international anti-corruption matters.
Prior to becoming a member of the Firm, he turned into the Principal Integrity Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank, wherein he led a group of attorneys and investigators within the improvement, investigation and prosecution of fraud and corruption instances. He additionally became responsible for compliance tactics relating to issues such as integrity due diligence, anti-money laundering, offshore economic facilities, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals List.
Mr. Paz served in senior positions at some stage in his six-yr tenure with the Securities and Exchange Commission, wherein he performed a key role in growing the SEC’s positions on many crucial regulatory and enforcement subjects. Mr. Paz has important experience with federal securities legal guidelines, with specific knowledge on problems associated with the business of broker-sellers. Mr. Paz changed into part of the team managing the monetary disaster and has worked on some of regulatory measures, along with fraud, anti-manipulation, credit score rankings business enterprise reform, the respective fiduciary responsibilities of broking-dealers and investment advisers, hedge funds, and enhancements to capital and monetary controls over dealer-dealers. He dealt with a number of regulatory moves concerning overseas economic institutions. During his tenure on the SEC, Mr. Paz labored on over 100 enforcement matters concerning complex securities troubles. He worked carefully with senior members of the SEC on troubles associated with the oversight of the securities markets, broker-sellers, clearance and settlement, transfer retailers, and credit score agencies.
Prior to his tenure on the SEC, Mr. Paz spent several years in private exercise, specializing in complex securities litigation, company and fiduciary litigation, and corporate finance subjects.
Mr. Paz has been recognized as one of the “a hundred Most Influential U.S. Hispanics” via Hispanic Business Magazine. He is a Past President of the Hispanic Bar Association of DC and a former National Vice President of the Hispanic National Bar Association. He has been venerated with the Leadership Award from the Hispanic National Bar Foundation and appointed an Ambassador through the American Bar Association Business Law Section.
Mr. Paz is a member of the adjunct college of Georgetown University Law Center, wherein he teaches a course at the U.S. law of economic establishments and the securities markets and a course on global enterprise litigation and federal exercise. In addition, Mr. Paz has been a frequent speaker at the federal securities laws, white collar criminal defense, and internal investigations.
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- Securities Law
- White Collar Crime
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Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken, Written
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