Partner, King & Spalding
Drew Hruska focuses on criminal and regulatory litigation and investigations, internal investigations, regulatory compliance and risk advice. A partner in our Special Matters and Investigations practice, Drew represents major financial services and industrial companies, family offices and prominent individuals.
Drew represents a variety of financial services clients, including securities, commercial banking, insurance, insurance brokerage, hedge funds and private equity funds, along with major industrial companies, concerning enforcement and national security investigations by government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, OFAC, SEC, state attorneys general, and many others. Matters under investigation typically involve fraud, money laundering, international sanctions, foreign corrupt practices, banking regulation, false claims, taxation, data privacy and security, antitrust and immigration restrictions.
In addition, Drew consults with numerous multinational companies on a range of criminal, regulatory compliance, and risk issues. Drew speaks Russian and is frequently engaged on financial enforcement issues involving Russia and Eastern Europe. He has also served in independent roles a Monitor appointed by an international organization, an independent legal advisor for the Federal Reserve and Office of the Controller of the Currency, and as a court-appointed Examiner in bankruptcy.
Before joining our firm, Drew served as the Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where he supervised the criminal and civil divisions. He also oversaw the office’s corporate fraud offensive, including investigations of Computer Associates and Symbol Technologies. Drew served as Acting U.S. Attorney for the prosecution of the New York Racing Association on tax conspiracy charges. He also led the criminal investigation of the Staten Island Ferry crash of October 15, 2003, that resulted in a manslaughter conviction for New York City’s Ferry Service Director.
Previously, Drew served as Senior Counsel to U.S. Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, and as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where he prosecuted major securities, bank and insurance fraud cases as a member of the Frauds Bureau.
Drew is recognized by Chambers, Benchmark Litigation, Legal 500, and Who’s Who Legal. He serves on the World Jewish Congress President’s Security Advisory Committee and on the Dewey Medal Prize Committee for the New York City District Attorneys’ Offices.
Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency
Mark Calabria is the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
He was formerly the chief economist for Vice President Mike Pence. Prior to that, he served as Director of Financial Regulation Studies at the Cato Institute. Before joining Cato in 2009, he spent six years as a member of the senior professional staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. In that position, Calabria handled issues related to housing, mortgage finance, economics, banking and insurance for Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL). Prior to his service on Capitol Hill, Calabria served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and also held a variety of positions at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors. Calabria has also been a Research Associate with the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies.
He has extensive experience evaluating the impacts of legislative and regulatory proposals on financial and real estate markets, with particular emphasis on how policy changes in Washington affect low and moderate income households.
He holds a doctorate in economics from George Mason University.
Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law, Yale Law School
Jonathan R. Macey is Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law at Yale University, and Professor in the Yale School of Management. From 1991 – 2004, Professor Macey was J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at Cornell Law School, and Professor of Law and Business at the Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Business. Professor Macey earned his B.A. cum laude from Harvard in 1977, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1982, where he was Article and Book Review editor of The Yale Law Journal. In 1996, Professor Macey received a Ph.D. honoris causa from the Stockholm School of Economics. Following law school, Professor Macey was law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Macey is the author of several books including the two-volume treatise, Macey on Corporation Laws, published in 1998 (Aspen Law & Business), and co-author of two leading casebooks, Corporations: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (2003 Thomson West), which is in its eighth edition, and Banking Law and Regulation (2002 Aspen Law & Business), which is now in its third edition. He also is the author of over 100 scholarly articles. His recent articles have appeared in the Banking Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Brookings Wharton Papers on Financial Institutions. He has published numerous editorials in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, and The National Law Journal.
Professor Macey has taught at major universities throughout the world, including Bocconi University (Milan), the University of Tokyo; the University of Toronto; the University of Turin, the University of Amsterdam Department of Finance, and the Stockholm School of Economics, Department of Law. He also has been Professor of Law at the University of Chicago (1990) and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1999). Professor Macey is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Turin, Italy. Professor Macey also serves on the Academic Advisory Board (Comitato Scientifico) of the Associazione Disiano Preite for the study of corporate law (per lo studio del diritto dell’impresa). In 1995, Professor Macey was awarded the Paul M. Bator prize for excellence in Teaching, Scholarship and Public Service by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. In 1996, he received a Ph.D., honoris causa from the Stockholm School of Economics. And in 1998, he received the D.P. Jacobs prize for the most significant paper in volume 6 of the Journal of Financial Intermediation for his paper (co-authored with Maureen O’Hara), “The Law & Economics of Best Execution.”
In 1999 Professor Macey was made an honorary Fellow of the Society For Advanced Legal Studies. In 2000, Professor Macey became a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange. In 2001 Professor Macey was appointed a Bertil Daniellson Distinguished Visiting Professor in Banking and Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. In 2002 Professor Macey was appointed to the Economic Advisory Board of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). In 2004 Professor Macey was awarded a Teaching Award by the Yale Law Women in recognition of his “commitment to excellence in teaching, mentoring and inspiring.” In 2005 Professor Macey became a member of the Board of Editors of Thomson West Publishing Company.
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Kalorama Partners LLC and Kalorama Legal Services PLLC
Harvey L. Pitt is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director of the global business consulting firm, Kalorama Partners, LLC, and its law firm affiliate, Kalorama Legal Services, PLLC. Prior to founding the Kalorama firms in 2003, Mr. Pitt served as the twenty-sixth Chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In that role, from 2001 until 2003, Mr. Pitt was responsible, among other things, for overseeing the SEC’s response to the market disruptions resulting from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, for creating the SEC’s “real time enforcement” program, and for leading the Commission’s unanimous adoption of dozens of rules in response to the corporate and accounting crises generated by the excesses of the 1990s.
For nearly a quarter of a century before becoming SEC Chairman, Mr. Pitt was a senior corporate partner of Fried, Frank LLP, an international law firm, and served as Co-Chair of the firm (1998-2001). He was a founding Trustee and first President of the SEC Historical Society. Former Chairman Pitt appears regularly as a commenter on major televised news programs, and is a frequent speaker on a wide variety of issues, including economics, regulation of capital and financial markets, corporate governance, business ethics, accounting, and legislative matters. Mr. Pitt has served as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the George Washington University Law School (Market Regulation, 1974-82), Georgetown University Law Center (Fraud and Fiduciary Duties, 1975-84), the University of Pennsylvania School of Law (Fraud and Fiduciary Duties, and Takeover Law, 1983-84) and The Yale Law School (Corporate Governance, 2007).
Former Chairman Pitt served previously on the Staff of the SEC (1968-78), including three years as Commission General Counsel (1975-78). Former Chairman Pitt received a J.D. degree from St. John’s University School of Law (1968), and his B.A. degree from the City University of New York (Brooklyn College) (1965). He was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree by St. John’s University (2002), and received the Brooklyn College President’s Medal of Distinction (2003). He co-authored a three volume comprehensive treatise on financial services regulation, entitled The Law of Financial Services (Aspen Law & Publishing, 1988), and has published numerous scholarly articles and monographs on a wide variety of economic, regulatory and legal subjects.
Mr. Pitt is currently a Director and Audit Committee member of Premier Alliance Group, Inc., a public professional services company focused on business, energy and technology advisory and consulting services. He is also a Director as well as the Chairman of the Audit and Compensation Committees of GWU Medical Faculty Associates, Inc., an IRC §501(c)(3) notfor-profit corporation that provides comprehensive medical care to residents of the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. He also serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of the offshore funds of Paulson & Co., and its affiliates. In addition to his fiduciary board positions, Mr. Pitt is a member of the Global Advisory Forum of CQS, a global multi strategy asset management firm, and a member of the Regulatory and Compliance Advisory Council of Millennium Management LLC. Mr. Pitt is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a not-for-profit corporation created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to oversee and regulate the audits of public companies and securities industry brokers and dealers. Mr. Pitt also serves as a Senior Advisor to Teneo Holdings LLC, a global consulting firm that offers a wide variety of strategic planning services to public and private companies, as well as local governments. Former Chairman Pitt previously served as a member of the National Cathedral School Board of Trustees (2006-09), where he was, variously, Board Vice-Chair, Co-Chair of the Board’s Governance Committee and Chair of the Audit and Compensation Committees.r. Pitt also previously served as a Director of Approva Corporation (2004-07), a closelyheld company that provided compliance software for major public companies, and was a member of Approva’s Audit and Strategic Planning Committees. In 2011, Mr. Pitt was inducted into the National Association of Corporate Directors-Directorship 100 Hall of Fame, which acknowledges corporate governance professionals for their lifetime accomplishments and their positive influence on corporate governance. In 2011, Mr. Pitt received the William O. Douglas Award, conferred annually by the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni, Inc. on an SEC alumnus who has contributed to the development of the federal securities laws or served the financial and SEC community with distinction.
Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO
Damon A. Silvers is the Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the AFL-CIO. He joined the AFL-CIO as Associate General Counsel in 1997.
Mr. Silvers serves on a pro bono basis as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the state of New York. Mr. Silvers is also a member of the Investor Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury Department’s Financial Research Advisory Committee, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Standing Advisory Group and its Investor Advisory Group.
Mr. Silvers served as the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP from 2008 to 2011. Between 2006 and 2008, Mr. Silvers served as the Chair of the Competition Subcommittee of the United States Treasury Department Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession and as a member of the United States Treasury Department Investor’s Practice Committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.
Prior to working for the AFL-CIO, Mr. Silvers worked for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers, and as a law clerk at the Delaware Court of Chancery for Chancellor William T. Allen and Vice-Chancellor Bernard Balick.
Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency
Mark Calabria is the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
He was formerly the chief economist for Vice President Mike Pence. Prior to that, he served as Director of Financial Regulation Studies at the Cato Institute. Before joining Cato in 2009, he spent six years as a member of the senior professional staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. In that position, Calabria handled issues related to housing, mortgage finance, economics, banking and insurance for Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL). Prior to his service on Capitol Hill, Calabria served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and also held a variety of positions at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors. Calabria has also been a Research Associate with the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies.
He has extensive experience evaluating the impacts of legislative and regulatory proposals on financial and real estate markets, with particular emphasis on how policy changes in Washington affect low and moderate income households.
He holds a doctorate in economics from George Mason University.
Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law, Yale Law School
Jonathan R. Macey is Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law at Yale University, and Professor in the Yale School of Management. From 1991 – 2004, Professor Macey was J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at Cornell Law School, and Professor of Law and Business at the Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Business. Professor Macey earned his B.A. cum laude from Harvard in 1977, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1982, where he was Article and Book Review editor of The Yale Law Journal. In 1996, Professor Macey received a Ph.D. honoris causa from the Stockholm School of Economics. Following law school, Professor Macey was law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Macey is the author of several books including the two-volume treatise, Macey on Corporation Laws, published in 1998 (Aspen Law & Business), and co-author of two leading casebooks, Corporations: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (2003 Thomson West), which is in its eighth edition, and Banking Law and Regulation (2002 Aspen Law & Business), which is now in its third edition. He also is the author of over 100 scholarly articles. His recent articles have appeared in the Banking Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Brookings Wharton Papers on Financial Institutions. He has published numerous editorials in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, and The National Law Journal.
Professor Macey has taught at major universities throughout the world, including Bocconi University (Milan), the University of Tokyo; the University of Toronto; the University of Turin, the University of Amsterdam Department of Finance, and the Stockholm School of Economics, Department of Law. He also has been Professor of Law at the University of Chicago (1990) and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1999). Professor Macey is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Turin, Italy. Professor Macey also serves on the Academic Advisory Board (Comitato Scientifico) of the Associazione Disiano Preite for the study of corporate law (per lo studio del diritto dell’impresa). In 1995, Professor Macey was awarded the Paul M. Bator prize for excellence in Teaching, Scholarship and Public Service by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. In 1996, he received a Ph.D., honoris causa from the Stockholm School of Economics. And in 1998, he received the D.P. Jacobs prize for the most significant paper in volume 6 of the Journal of Financial Intermediation for his paper (co-authored with Maureen O’Hara), “The Law & Economics of Best Execution.”
In 1999 Professor Macey was made an honorary Fellow of the Society For Advanced Legal Studies. In 2000, Professor Macey became a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange. In 2001 Professor Macey was appointed a Bertil Daniellson Distinguished Visiting Professor in Banking and Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. In 2002 Professor Macey was appointed to the Economic Advisory Board of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). In 2004 Professor Macey was awarded a Teaching Award by the Yale Law Women in recognition of his “commitment to excellence in teaching, mentoring and inspiring.” In 2005 Professor Macey became a member of the Board of Editors of Thomson West Publishing Company.
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Kalorama Partners LLC and Kalorama Legal Services PLLC
Harvey L. Pitt is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director of the global business consulting firm, Kalorama Partners, LLC, and its law firm affiliate, Kalorama Legal Services, PLLC. Prior to founding the Kalorama firms in 2003, Mr. Pitt served as the twenty-sixth Chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In that role, from 2001 until 2003, Mr. Pitt was responsible, among other things, for overseeing the SEC’s response to the market disruptions resulting from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, for creating the SEC’s “real time enforcement” program, and for leading the Commission’s unanimous adoption of dozens of rules in response to the corporate and accounting crises generated by the excesses of the 1990s.
For nearly a quarter of a century before becoming SEC Chairman, Mr. Pitt was a senior corporate partner of Fried, Frank LLP, an international law firm, and served as Co-Chair of the firm (1998-2001). He was a founding Trustee and first President of the SEC Historical Society. Former Chairman Pitt appears regularly as a commenter on major televised news programs, and is a frequent speaker on a wide variety of issues, including economics, regulation of capital and financial markets, corporate governance, business ethics, accounting, and legislative matters. Mr. Pitt has served as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the George Washington University Law School (Market Regulation, 1974-82), Georgetown University Law Center (Fraud and Fiduciary Duties, 1975-84), the University of Pennsylvania School of Law (Fraud and Fiduciary Duties, and Takeover Law, 1983-84) and The Yale Law School (Corporate Governance, 2007).
Former Chairman Pitt served previously on the Staff of the SEC (1968-78), including three years as Commission General Counsel (1975-78). Former Chairman Pitt received a J.D. degree from St. John’s University School of Law (1968), and his B.A. degree from the City University of New York (Brooklyn College) (1965). He was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree by St. John’s University (2002), and received the Brooklyn College President’s Medal of Distinction (2003). He co-authored a three volume comprehensive treatise on financial services regulation, entitled The Law of Financial Services (Aspen Law & Publishing, 1988), and has published numerous scholarly articles and monographs on a wide variety of economic, regulatory and legal subjects.
Mr. Pitt is currently a Director and Audit Committee member of Premier Alliance Group, Inc., a public professional services company focused on business, energy and technology advisory and consulting services. He is also a Director as well as the Chairman of the Audit and Compensation Committees of GWU Medical Faculty Associates, Inc., an IRC §501(c)(3) notfor-profit corporation that provides comprehensive medical care to residents of the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. He also serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of the offshore funds of Paulson & Co., and its affiliates. In addition to his fiduciary board positions, Mr. Pitt is a member of the Global Advisory Forum of CQS, a global multi strategy asset management firm, and a member of the Regulatory and Compliance Advisory Council of Millennium Management LLC. Mr. Pitt is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a not-for-profit corporation created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to oversee and regulate the audits of public companies and securities industry brokers and dealers. Mr. Pitt also serves as a Senior Advisor to Teneo Holdings LLC, a global consulting firm that offers a wide variety of strategic planning services to public and private companies, as well as local governments. Former Chairman Pitt previously served as a member of the National Cathedral School Board of Trustees (2006-09), where he was, variously, Board Vice-Chair, Co-Chair of the Board’s Governance Committee and Chair of the Audit and Compensation Committees.r. Pitt also previously served as a Director of Approva Corporation (2004-07), a closelyheld company that provided compliance software for major public companies, and was a member of Approva’s Audit and Strategic Planning Committees. In 2011, Mr. Pitt was inducted into the National Association of Corporate Directors-Directorship 100 Hall of Fame, which acknowledges corporate governance professionals for their lifetime accomplishments and their positive influence on corporate governance. In 2011, Mr. Pitt received the William O. Douglas Award, conferred annually by the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni, Inc. on an SEC alumnus who has contributed to the development of the federal securities laws or served the financial and SEC community with distinction.
Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO
Damon A. Silvers is the Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the AFL-CIO. He joined the AFL-CIO as Associate General Counsel in 1997.
Mr. Silvers serves on a pro bono basis as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the state of New York. Mr. Silvers is also a member of the Investor Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury Department’s Financial Research Advisory Committee, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Standing Advisory Group and its Investor Advisory Group.
Mr. Silvers served as the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP from 2008 to 2011. Between 2006 and 2008, Mr. Silvers served as the Chair of the Competition Subcommittee of the United States Treasury Department Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession and as a member of the United States Treasury Department Investor’s Practice Committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.
Prior to working for the AFL-CIO, Mr. Silvers worked for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers, and as a law clerk at the Delaware Court of Chancery for Chancellor William T. Allen and Vice-Chancellor Bernard Balick.
Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law
Professor Colombo joined the Hofstra University School of Law faculty in the Fall of 2006. He teaches courses in corporate, securities, and contract law. His research and scholarship focuses primarily on corporate and securities law and, more specifically, the application of non-economic principles and norms to these fields.
Before coming to Hofstra, Professor Colombo served in the Complex Global Litigation Group of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., as vice president and counsel. In this position, Professor Colombo supervised investigations, litigations, and regulatory inquiries affecting Morgan Stanley's investment banking franchise. Prior to that, Professor Colombo practiced as a litigation associate at the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell, where, among other things, he represented corporate and banking clients in civil and criminal investigations conducted by the S.E.C., the U.S. Attorney's Office, and the Federal Reserve Bank; in matters before state courts, federal courts, and arbitration panels; and in appeals before the Third Circuit, the D.C. Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. From 2000-2003, Professor Colombo also served on the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Attorney and Legal Commentator
John Shu is an attorney and legal commentator. His focus areas include constitutional law, securities & corporate law, antitrust law, administrative law, politics, and international affairs. Mr. Shu has lectured and published on a wide variety of issues.
Mr. Shu served President George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush. He also served Judge Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who was Director of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency, and Judge Paul Roney, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, who was Presiding Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.
Mr. Shu is a member of the National Committee on U.S. - China Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Foreign Policy Association.
Stefan Marculewicz is a Shareholder in the Washington, DC office of Littler Mendelson, P.C., and focuses his legal practice on traditional labor law matters, international labor law and standards, and non-traditional worker representation.
Jennifer Thomas is an Associate in the Washington, DC office of Littler Mendelson, P.C. where she concentrates her practice in the areas of labor and employment law.
Professor Emeritus of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Jeremy A. Rabkin is a Professor Emeritus of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. Before joining the faculty in June 2007, he was for over two decades a professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Professor Rabkin serves on the board of directors of the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm based in Washington, D.C. Previously he was a board member of the U.S. Institute of Peace and the board of academic advisors of the American Enterprise Institute.
Professor Rabkin’s books include Law Without Nations? (Princeton University Press, 2005). He authored “If You Need a Friend, Don’t Call a Cosmopolitan,” a chapter in Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship (Sigal R. Ben-Porath & Rogers M. Smith eds., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). His articles have appeared in major law reviews and political science journals and his journalistic contributions in a range of magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency
Mark Calabria is the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
He was formerly the chief economist for Vice President Mike Pence. Prior to that, he served as Director of Financial Regulation Studies at the Cato Institute. Before joining Cato in 2009, he spent six years as a member of the senior professional staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. In that position, Calabria handled issues related to housing, mortgage finance, economics, banking and insurance for Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL). Prior to his service on Capitol Hill, Calabria served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and also held a variety of positions at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors. Calabria has also been a Research Associate with the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies.
He has extensive experience evaluating the impacts of legislative and regulatory proposals on financial and real estate markets, with particular emphasis on how policy changes in Washington affect low and moderate income households.
He holds a doctorate in economics from George Mason University.
Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law, Yale Law School
Jonathan R. Macey is Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law at Yale University, and Professor in the Yale School of Management. From 1991 – 2004, Professor Macey was J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at Cornell Law School, and Professor of Law and Business at the Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Business. Professor Macey earned his B.A. cum laude from Harvard in 1977, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1982, where he was Article and Book Review editor of The Yale Law Journal. In 1996, Professor Macey received a Ph.D. honoris causa from the Stockholm School of Economics. Following law school, Professor Macey was law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Macey is the author of several books including the two-volume treatise, Macey on Corporation Laws, published in 1998 (Aspen Law & Business), and co-author of two leading casebooks, Corporations: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (2003 Thomson West), which is in its eighth edition, and Banking Law and Regulation (2002 Aspen Law & Business), which is now in its third edition. He also is the author of over 100 scholarly articles. His recent articles have appeared in the Banking Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Brookings Wharton Papers on Financial Institutions. He has published numerous editorials in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, and The National Law Journal.
Professor Macey has taught at major universities throughout the world, including Bocconi University (Milan), the University of Tokyo; the University of Toronto; the University of Turin, the University of Amsterdam Department of Finance, and the Stockholm School of Economics, Department of Law. He also has been Professor of Law at the University of Chicago (1990) and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1999). Professor Macey is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Turin, Italy. Professor Macey also serves on the Academic Advisory Board (Comitato Scientifico) of the Associazione Disiano Preite for the study of corporate law (per lo studio del diritto dell’impresa). In 1995, Professor Macey was awarded the Paul M. Bator prize for excellence in Teaching, Scholarship and Public Service by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. In 1996, he received a Ph.D., honoris causa from the Stockholm School of Economics. And in 1998, he received the D.P. Jacobs prize for the most significant paper in volume 6 of the Journal of Financial Intermediation for his paper (co-authored with Maureen O’Hara), “The Law & Economics of Best Execution.”
In 1999 Professor Macey was made an honorary Fellow of the Society For Advanced Legal Studies. In 2000, Professor Macey became a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange. In 2001 Professor Macey was appointed a Bertil Daniellson Distinguished Visiting Professor in Banking and Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. In 2002 Professor Macey was appointed to the Economic Advisory Board of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). In 2004 Professor Macey was awarded a Teaching Award by the Yale Law Women in recognition of his “commitment to excellence in teaching, mentoring and inspiring.” In 2005 Professor Macey became a member of the Board of Editors of Thomson West Publishing Company.
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Kalorama Partners LLC and Kalorama Legal Services PLLC
Harvey L. Pitt is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director of the global business consulting firm, Kalorama Partners, LLC, and its law firm affiliate, Kalorama Legal Services, PLLC. Prior to founding the Kalorama firms in 2003, Mr. Pitt served as the twenty-sixth Chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In that role, from 2001 until 2003, Mr. Pitt was responsible, among other things, for overseeing the SEC’s response to the market disruptions resulting from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, for creating the SEC’s “real time enforcement” program, and for leading the Commission’s unanimous adoption of dozens of rules in response to the corporate and accounting crises generated by the excesses of the 1990s.
For nearly a quarter of a century before becoming SEC Chairman, Mr. Pitt was a senior corporate partner of Fried, Frank LLP, an international law firm, and served as Co-Chair of the firm (1998-2001). He was a founding Trustee and first President of the SEC Historical Society. Former Chairman Pitt appears regularly as a commenter on major televised news programs, and is a frequent speaker on a wide variety of issues, including economics, regulation of capital and financial markets, corporate governance, business ethics, accounting, and legislative matters. Mr. Pitt has served as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the George Washington University Law School (Market Regulation, 1974-82), Georgetown University Law Center (Fraud and Fiduciary Duties, 1975-84), the University of Pennsylvania School of Law (Fraud and Fiduciary Duties, and Takeover Law, 1983-84) and The Yale Law School (Corporate Governance, 2007).
Former Chairman Pitt served previously on the Staff of the SEC (1968-78), including three years as Commission General Counsel (1975-78). Former Chairman Pitt received a J.D. degree from St. John’s University School of Law (1968), and his B.A. degree from the City University of New York (Brooklyn College) (1965). He was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree by St. John’s University (2002), and received the Brooklyn College President’s Medal of Distinction (2003). He co-authored a three volume comprehensive treatise on financial services regulation, entitled The Law of Financial Services (Aspen Law & Publishing, 1988), and has published numerous scholarly articles and monographs on a wide variety of economic, regulatory and legal subjects.
Mr. Pitt is currently a Director and Audit Committee member of Premier Alliance Group, Inc., a public professional services company focused on business, energy and technology advisory and consulting services. He is also a Director as well as the Chairman of the Audit and Compensation Committees of GWU Medical Faculty Associates, Inc., an IRC §501(c)(3) notfor-profit corporation that provides comprehensive medical care to residents of the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. He also serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of the offshore funds of Paulson & Co., and its affiliates. In addition to his fiduciary board positions, Mr. Pitt is a member of the Global Advisory Forum of CQS, a global multi strategy asset management firm, and a member of the Regulatory and Compliance Advisory Council of Millennium Management LLC. Mr. Pitt is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a not-for-profit corporation created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to oversee and regulate the audits of public companies and securities industry brokers and dealers. Mr. Pitt also serves as a Senior Advisor to Teneo Holdings LLC, a global consulting firm that offers a wide variety of strategic planning services to public and private companies, as well as local governments. Former Chairman Pitt previously served as a member of the National Cathedral School Board of Trustees (2006-09), where he was, variously, Board Vice-Chair, Co-Chair of the Board’s Governance Committee and Chair of the Audit and Compensation Committees.r. Pitt also previously served as a Director of Approva Corporation (2004-07), a closelyheld company that provided compliance software for major public companies, and was a member of Approva’s Audit and Strategic Planning Committees. In 2011, Mr. Pitt was inducted into the National Association of Corporate Directors-Directorship 100 Hall of Fame, which acknowledges corporate governance professionals for their lifetime accomplishments and their positive influence on corporate governance. In 2011, Mr. Pitt received the William O. Douglas Award, conferred annually by the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni, Inc. on an SEC alumnus who has contributed to the development of the federal securities laws or served the financial and SEC community with distinction.
Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO
Damon A. Silvers is the Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the AFL-CIO. He joined the AFL-CIO as Associate General Counsel in 1997.
Mr. Silvers serves on a pro bono basis as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the state of New York. Mr. Silvers is also a member of the Investor Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury Department’s Financial Research Advisory Committee, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Standing Advisory Group and its Investor Advisory Group.
Mr. Silvers served as the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP from 2008 to 2011. Between 2006 and 2008, Mr. Silvers served as the Chair of the Competition Subcommittee of the United States Treasury Department Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession and as a member of the United States Treasury Department Investor’s Practice Committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.
Prior to working for the AFL-CIO, Mr. Silvers worked for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers, and as a law clerk at the Delaware Court of Chancery for Chancellor William T. Allen and Vice-Chancellor Bernard Balick.
Partner and Deputy Chair, Securities Department, WilmerHale
Daniel Gallagher advises corporate boards and management on the full range of legal and strategic issues they face, and counsels financial services and accounting firms in investigations, regulatory proceedings and policy matters. Mr. Gallagher brings to his practice an unparalleled breadth of experience from having served not only in senior positions at the Securities and Exchange Commission but also as the chief legal officer of a global, S&P 500 corporation and general counsel of a broker-dealer.
Mr. Gallagher has extensive experience in the public and private sectors, navigating regulatory matters, financial markets, corporate legal affairs and governance, and fintech issues, including the regulatory and policy issues arising from new technology.
Mr. Gallagher previously served as the chief legal officer at Mylan N.V., a leading global pharmaceutical company; as the president of a financial services consulting firm; and as an SEC Commissioner. As an SEC Commissioner, Mr. Gallagher championed corporate governance reform, advocated for a comprehensive holistic review of equity market structural issues, and encouraged greatly improving the commission’s fixed income market expertise.
Mr. Gallagher also served on SEC staff in various senior roles, including as the deputy director and co-acting director of the Division of Trading and Markets, where he was on the front lines of the agency’s response to the financial crisis, including representing the commission in the Lehman Brothers liquidation. He was also a counsel to former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins and to former Chairman Christopher Cox, working on matters involving the Division of Enforcement and the Division of Trading and Markets.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Gallagher was the senior vice president and general counsel of a global provider of financial services technology, where he managed all legal and regulatory matters. He first joined WilmerHale in 1993 as an associate in the firm’s Securities Department.
Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Paul S. Atkins was sworn into office as the 34th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 21, 2025, after being nominated by President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 9, 2025.
Prior to returning to the SEC, Chairman Atkins was most recently chief executive of Patomak Global Partners, a company he founded in 2009. Chairman Atkins helped lead efforts to develop best practices for the digital asset sector. He served as an independent director and non-executive chairman of the board of BATS Global Markets, Inc. from 2012 to 2015.
Chairman Atkins was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a Commissioner of the SEC from 2002 to 2008. During his tenure, he advocated for transparency, consistency, and the use of cost-benefit analysis at the agency. Chairman Atkins also represented the SEC at meetings of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets and the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council. From 2009 to 2010, he was appointed a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Before serving as an SEC Commissioner, Chairman Atkins was a consultant on securities and investment management industry matters, especially regarding issues of strategy, regulatory compliance, risk management, new product development, and organizational control.
From 1990 to 1994, Chairman Atkins served on the staff of two chairmen of the SEC, Richard C. Breeden and Arthur Levitt, ultimately as chief of staff and counselor, respectively. He received the SEC’s 1992 Law and Policy Award for work regarding corporate governance matters.
Chairman Atkins began his career as a lawyer in New York, focusing on a wide range of corporate transactions for U.S. and foreign clients, including public and private securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He was resident for 2½ years in his firm's Paris office and admitted as conseil juridique in France.
A member of the New York and Florida bars, Chairman Atkins received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1983 and was Senior Student Writing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. He received his A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, from Wofford College in 1980.
Originally from Lillington, North Carolina, Chairman Atkins grew up in Tampa, Florida. He and his wife Sarah have three sons.
Timothy Flanigan Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Corporate S, Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Timothy E. Flanigan is the Chief Legal for Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). With a rich background as a leader and senior legal advisor, he has more than 35 years of experience in public companies, the private practice of law, and in senior levels of government service.
Prior to joining CTCA, Mr. Flanigan served as Senior Vice President and Principal Deputy General Counsel at BlackBerry, Limited where he was responsible for the legal, business affairs and corporate security functions, as well as the company’s global government relations efforts. Previously, he was a senior partner with the international law firm McGuireWoods, LLC, and Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Tyco International, where he helped successfully revitalize that $40 billion enterprise.
Mr. Flanigan served the United States in multiple roles throughout his career, including Senior Law Clerk to the Honorable Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States. He also served as Deputy Counsel to President George W. Bush, where he coordinated legal strategy throughout the executive branch on anti-terrorism and other issues. He was nominated by President George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel.
Mr. Flanigan earned his law degree and his MBA from the University of Virginia, and a bachelor’s degree in history from Brigham Young University.
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