Jamie Lynn Walter advises clients on a wide range of complex legal, regulatory, and compliance matters across the asset management industry. Her practice focuses on SEC regulation of investment advisers and private funds.
Ms. Walter draws on extensive public and private sector experience to help investment managers and other financial institutions navigate all aspects of SEC regulatory and compliance matters, with an emphasis on issues arising under the Investment Advisers Act and the Investment Company Act. As a former regulator, Ms. Walter offers valuable insights into the SEC, including its policies, procedures, operations, and processes. She focuses on providing clients creative solutions to navigating the challenging regulatory landscape.
Ms. Walter’s areas of expertise include SEC examinations and enforcement investigations, investment adviser registration and ongoing compliance matters, private fund formation and structuring, M&A and IPO transactions involving asset managers, family office considerations, GP-led secondaries, minority stake transactions, and management team spin-outs.
Over the years, Ms. Walter has served as lead counsel to several of the world’s largest asset managers and has successfully counselled clients through numerous complex SEC examinations and enforcement investigations, oftentimes resulting in examinations closed with no deficiencies or comments.
Prior to joining Latham, Ms. Walter served as Senior Counsel in the Private Funds Branch of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management. While at the SEC, she was responsible for providing significant legal guidance on a wide range of matters involving investment advisers and investment funds, including private funds, mutual funds, and exchange traded funds. She also worked closely with the SEC’s Division of Enforcement and Division of Examinations on examinations and enforcement investigations.
Ms. Walter regularly engages in thought leadership on key issues concerning investment advisers and private funds and is a frequent speaker for leading industry conferences.
She has been an adjunct professor at Howard University Law School since 2018, where she teaches a course on private equity and hedge fund regulation.
Ms. Walter also served as a law clerk to Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. on the Fifth Circuit.