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Consumer/Investor Protections Laws: How They Impact Your Firm
Josephine Wang
General Counsel
Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)
Josephine Wang joined the Securities Investor Protection Corporation in 1983, assuming positions of increasing responsibility, and in 2004, becoming the Corporation’s General Counsel and Secretary. Before joining SIPC, Ms. Wang was an attorney with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a federal government agency regulating the commodity futures and options markets in the United States and protecting futures investors against abusive practices.
While on the staff at SIPC, Ms. Wang had primary responsibility for some of the larger liquidations under the Securities Investor Protection Act (“SIPA”) including those of Bevill Bresler & Schulman, Inc. and First Interregional Equity Corporation, in New Jersey, and Stratton Oakmont, Inc., in New York. On behalf of SIPC, she briefed and argued cases at all levels of the federal court system. As General Counsel, Ms. Wang is the chief legal officer for SIPC, overseeing a team of attorneys, and attending to the Corporation’s legal matters.
Ms. Wang is the co-author of a comprehensive article examining the impact of stockbroker liquidations under SIPA on securities transfers (12 Cardozo Law Review 509 (1990)). She has served as a Director on the Board of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund; provided legal representation under pro bono clinics sponsored by the District of Columbia Bar; and been a speaker on behalf of SIPC in various programs, including, among others, the 5th International Belgrade Stock Exchange Conference, in Belgrade, Serbia, and the 2007 Spring Conference in Washington, D. C., of the American Bar Association.
Ms. Wang received her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. She is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and is a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and of several federal Courts of Appeals.
Rex A. Staples
General Counsel
North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc.
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William C. MacLeod
Partner, Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice Group
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
William C. MacLeod, a former Bureau Director at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), focuses on competition law, trade regulation, advertising, privacy and security. He is Co-Chair of Kelley Drye’s Competition Practice Group.
Bill represents companies in advertising, antitrust and intellectual property disputes before the state and federal courts, the FTC, and the National Advertising Division of the Counsel of Better Business Bureaus. His notable cases include the FTC’s first unfairness trial in 20 years and the FTC’s first preliminary injunction action in an ad substantiation case.
He counsels and defends companies and trade associations on pricing, advertising, distribution, credit, privacy and security. In his work with trade associations and their members, he has fought onerous regulations and advocated sensible policies on competition, biotechnology, health, and privacy. In his work on privacy and security, he has defended the practices of major retailers, manufacturers and financial companies.
Previously, Bill served as Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC. As Bureau Director, he was the chief federal prosecutor of unfair and deceptive advertising, a regulator of credit and privacy practices and the U.S. delegate to a committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, where agency heads of Europe, Australia, and Japan develop policies for financial regulations, product safety, and consumer policy.
Consumer/Investor Protections Laws: How They Impact Your Firm
Speaker Firms:
Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)
North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc.
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
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