Michael J. Diver

Michael J. Diver concentrates his practice on securities regulatory and compliance matters, corporate governance and corporate and securities transactions. In addition to counseling clients with respect to securities offerings and compliance matters, Mr. Diver has extensive experience in representing public companies and individual officers and directors in matters before the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, including a number of high profile cases involving the subprime lending, telecommunications, information technology, banking and for-profit educational industries. His case experience covers virtually all areas of recent SEC enforcement focus, including matters related to the credit crisis, insider trading, stock options backdating, financial fraud, proxy statement disclosure and hedge fund activities. He has also advised audit committees and boards of directors in connection with corporate governance matters, internal investigations, financial restatements, special accounting reviews and NYSE and Nasdaq Stock Market inquiries.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Diver served as a Branch Chief in the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Chicago Regional Office. During his tenure with the Securities and Exchange Commission, he was responsible for managing a team of enforcement attorneys in investigating and prosecuting violations of the federal securities laws, including cases involving complex financial fraud, market manipulations, insider trading and violations of investment adviser and investment company regulations.

Mr. Diver graduated from Bucknell University in 1991 with a degree in economics and received his Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark Law College, cum laude, in 1996. He is a member of the Bar of the State of Illinois and has been admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.