The SEC today announced that General Counsel Anne Small will be leaving later this month. Ms. Small has served as SEC General Counsel since April 2013.  Sanket Bulsara, Deputy General Counsel for Appellate Litigation, Adjudication, and Enforcement, will become the Acting General Counsel.

As the agency’s chief legal officer, Ms. Small has provided counsel on virtually all the legal and policy issues before the Commission. This has included:

• providing advice on a record number of enforcement actions;
• representing and counseling on high-profile appeals throughout the country;
• advising on over 50 significant rulemaking initiatives – e.g., the Dodd-Frank and the JOBS Acts; and,
• defending against legal challenges to Commission regulations.

Prior to joining the SEC in April 2013, Ms. Small served as Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President.  Prior to that, Ms. Small served as the SEC’s Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Adjudication.  Ms. Small was previously a litigation partner in the law firm of WilmerHale.  She served as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court.  She is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, where she served as President of the Harvard Law Review.‎