Walter Jospin’s practice focuses on SEC and other securities regulatory enforcement matters, corporate governance, internal investigations, and SEC Whistleblower Claims.
Mr. Jospin is the former Director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served from February 2015 until January 2018. As Regional Director, he led over 110 lawyers, accountants, and compliance examiners in the office’s Enforcement and Examination programs, which cover Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina. During his three-year tenure, Mr. Jospin supervised many enforcement actions relating to financial and accounting fraud, disclosure failures, audit failures, offering frauds, Ponzi schemes, violations of the Investment Advisors Act, municipal securities, and insider trading.
Early in his career, Mr. Jospin was a staff attorney with the Division of Enforcement of the SEC in Atlanta, where he investigated and litigated financial and accounting fraud cases, including the first accounting case under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Prior to joining the SEC in February of 2015, Mr. Jospin was a long-time partner in the international law firm of Paul Hastings LLP, where he was a member of the firm’s Policy Committee and Unit Committee, and Chair of the Atlanta Office Corporate Department. At Paul Hastings, he specialized in corporate governance, internal investigations, securities regulatory enforcement, securities compliance, and corporate transactions.
Mr. Jospin has been recognized as a leading corporate and securities lawyer by Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who Legal Georgia, Who’s Who of International Mergers & Acquisition Lawyers, Georgia Super Lawyers, and Corporate Counsel Super Lawyers. He served as Chair of the Business Law Section, and Chair of the Securities Committee, of the State Bar of Georgia. He has been an adjunct professor at Emory Law School.
- White Collar Crime
- Securities Law
- Stockbroker & Investment Fraud
- SEC Whistleblower Representation
- Georgia
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- English
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- Finch McCranie, LLP
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- Director, Atlanta Regional Office
- Securities & Exchange Commission
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- Partner
- Paul Hastings
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- Emory University School of Law
- J.D.
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- University of Pennsylvania
- B.S.
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- Leading Corporate & Securities Lawyer
- Chambers USA
- Leading Corporate & Securities Lawyer
- The Best Lawyers in America
- Leading Corporate & Securities Lawyer
- Who’s Who Legal Georgia
- Leading Corporate & Securities Lawyer
- Who’s Who of International Mergers & Acquisition Lawyers
- Leading Corporate & Securities Lawyer
- Georgia Super Lawyers
- State Bar of Georgia
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- Forming Board Special Committees
- 161 The Corporate Board Journal
- Representing a Witness in an SEC Investigation
- 22 Georgia Bar Journal 122
- Georgia Corporations, Other Business Organizations & Securities Regulation
- Lawyer’s Cooperative Publishing
- Adjunct Professor Securities Enforcement, Emory Law School
- Website
- Walter Jospin's Website Profile
- Website
- Finch McCranie, LLP Website
- Blog
- Trial Attorney Blog
- Opioid Prescriptions, Prosecution of Physicians, and the Mens Rea Dividing Line
July 19, 2022 - When a Privileged Conversation Isn’t: The Crime-Fraud Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege
July 6, 2021 - “Extra Icing on a Cake Already Frosted”: The Supreme Court’s Continuing Concern with Overcriminalization
June 7, 2021
- Blog
- Whistleblower Lawyer Blog
- On 60 Minutes, LDS Church admits “bailout” of for-profit business by Ensign Peak – which shows Ensign Peak cannot be tax-exempt.
May 16, 2023 - 60 Minutes Interviews Our IRS & SEC Whistleblower Client David Nielsen: “Mormon Blows Whistle on Church’s Alleged ‘Clandestine Hedge Fund'”
May 16, 2023 - Planning the 2023 Whistleblower Law Symposium–False Claims Act, IRS, CFTC and SEC Whistleblowers in Cyber, Crypto, Financial Fraud, and Other Emerging Areas of Enforcement
April 26, 2023
