Gregory Bruch, Partner
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Gregory S. Bruch is a partner in the Litigation Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Washington. Mr. Bruch represents public companies, audit committees and special committees, broker-dealers, hedge funds and asset managers, lawyers, and other institutions and individuals in connection with civil and criminal securities law enforcement, compliance and litigation.
Mr. Bruch is recognized as a leading attorney in the area of securities law regulation in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® and the 2006 – 2009 editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Mr. Bruch frequently speaks at conferences, symposia and seminars on securities regulation, financial reporting and disclosure, insider trading and securities offerings, internal investigations, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. From 1999 through 2005, Mr. Bruch was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught courses in federal securities law enforcement. Additionally, he has served as a consultant to foreign securities regulators and market participants, including the Russian Federal Securities Commission.
Mr. Bruch served 12 years with the Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement in Washington, D.C. At the SEC, Mr. Bruch was Staff Attorney, Senior Counsel, Branch Chief and, from 1995 through 2001, Assistant Director. As Assistant Director, he supervised attorneys who investigated and prosecuted some of the SEC’s most significant financial fraud and broker-dealer cases, as well as cases involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, insider trading, market manipulation and public securities offerings. Mr. Bruch also supervised the Division of Enforcement’s delinquent reporting program, which enforced the periodic reporting obligations of public companies and the beneficial ownership reporting obligations of corporate officers, directors and major shareholders. In 2000, He received the SEC’s Stanley Sporkin Award in recognition of his contributions to the SEC’s enforcement program.
While in law school at the University of Iowa College of Law, Mr. Bruch served as Editor-in-Chief of the Iowa Law Review. Immediately after law school, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. George E. MacKinnon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Prior to joining Willkie, Mr. Bruch was a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP, where he chaired the Securities Litigation, Enforcement & Regulation Practice.
