Michele Layne

Michele Layne was the Regional Director of the SEC’s Los Angeles office for more than a decade where she managed nearly 200 staff and oversaw all of the office’s enforcement investigations, litigation, and examinations of SEC registrants in a four-state region. Michele was the longest serving female regional director and one of the longest serving senior enforcement leaders in the agency’s history. During nearly three decades at the SEC, Michele led high-profile enforcement actions covering every facet of the SEC’s jurisdiction. In her current practice at OMM she represents public and pre-IPO companies, financial institutions, asset management firms, boards of directors, audit, and special committees and individuals in internal investigations, SEC and other government investigations, as well as compliance-related issues.