Mark Schonfeld
USA Guide 2024
Band 3 : Securities: Regulation: Enforcement
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
(212) 351-2433Share profile
Band 3
About
Provided by Mark Schonfeld
Practice Areas
Mark is a Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Securities Enforcement Practice Group. His practice focuses on the representation of financial institutions, public companies, hedge funds, accounting firms and private equity firms in investigations conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Justice (DOJ), States Attorneys General, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and other regulatory organizations. He also conducts internal investigations and counsels clients on corporate governance, compliance and crisis management matters.
Career
Formerly Director of the New York Regional Office of the SEC.
Personal
Juris Doctor, cum laude, Harvard Law School in 1988. Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, and with Highest Distinction from the University of Rochester in 1984.
Chambers Review
USA
Mark Schonfeld cochairs the firm's securities enforcement group and regularly acts for financial institutions, public companies and investment funds facing SEC investigations and enforcement actions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Mark has a deep understanding of regulatory interactions and priorities and efficiently steers complex matters towards good outcomes."
"He is very commercially aware and listens to clients' objectives."
"Mark has a deep understanding of regulatory interactions and priorities and efficiently steers complex matters towards good outcomes."
"He is very commercially aware and listens to clients' objectives."