Carolyn M. Welshhans

Partner

Carolyn Welshhans held a number of senior leadership roles at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before joining Morgan Lewis, including associate director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, acting chief of the division’s Crypto Assets and Cyber unit, and acting data officer for the division. She also served as an assistant director in the enforcement division’s Cyber and Market Abuse units.

While at the SEC, Carolyn supervised numerous significant enforcement actions that covered the entire breadth of the SEC enforcement program, including public company disclosure, accounting, and internal controls violations, cybersecurity, investment advisers, broker-dealers, market structure, unregistered offerings involving crypto assets and other securities, insider trading, and manipulative trading.

Her responsibilities included conducting parallel investigations with US criminal authorities, international regulators, self-regulatory organizations, and other federal and state agencies; responding to or briefing congressional members and committees, US Treasury Department officials, and other federal agencies; advising on key SEC rulemaking initiatives; and overseeing the division’s group dedicated to the use of market and data analytics in investigations.

Carolyn frequently writes and speaks about SEC enforcement and regulatory developments.

Boston College Law School, 2003, J.D., cum laude
College of William & Mary, 2000, B.A., magna cum laude

District of Columbia