Meryl E. Wiener

Meryl E. Wiener is a member of the Financial Services Practice. She regularly advises financial institutions, investment managers and hedge funds on a broad range of regulatory, compliance, securities, registration, inspection, organizational and structuring matters. She is an expert on matters arising under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and represents clients in connection with regulatory examinations and enforcement proceedings.

Ms. Wiener also represents clients in court and before the SEC, NYSE and NASD in connection with investigations, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings defending broker dealers against claims brought by their clients.

Ms. Wiener spent four years as trial counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in its Division of Market Regulation, where she investigated and prosecuted enforcement actions under the federal securities laws.

Ms. Wiener is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; the American Bar Association, Business Law section; and the Association of SEC Alumni.

Ms. Wiener earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California in 1969 and her Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School in 1973. She is admitted to practice in New York and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.