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Roel C. Campos

Senior Counsel

Washington, D.C.

+1 (202) 721-4655

roel.campos@hugheshubbard.com
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Roel C. Campos is senior counsel in the firm’s Washington, DC, office. Roel’s practice consists of advising senior management and boards in their most sensitive and complex issues. His practice often involves conducting internal investigations and defending matters involving financial regulators, such as the SEC, DOJ, CFTC, and FINRA. He also advises boards on items such as cybersecurity, governance, cryptocurrency and proposed rulemakings by financial regulators.

Beginning in 2002, Roel was appointed twice by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the US Senate as a Commissioner of the SEC, serving until 2007. During his tenure, Roel presided over hundreds of complex enforcement cases and rulemakings, involving the full range of federal securities laws.

Prior to being appointed to the SEC, Roel raised venture capital with partners, was a senior executive and operated a radio broadcasting company.

He began his career after graduating from the US Air Force Academy and served as an officer for five years. After attending Harvard Law School, he worked in Los Angeles for major law firms as a corporate transactions/securities lawyer and litigator.

Roel served in the US Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. He prosecuted major narcotics cartels and, in a celebrated trial, convicted several kingpin cartel members for the kidnapping and murder of a DEA agent.

Examples of Recent Representations

  • High profile founder/executive, defending him in an SEC investigation and from charges resulting from a tweet about going private.
  • A drug company CFO, defending him in an fraud SEC investigation.
  • A Fund Manager, defending him in an SEC fraud investigation and subsequent Administrative Law Judge proceeding.
  • An insurance company, in a state insurance fraud investigation and audit dispute. 

Highlighted Lectures and Publications

  • “Ex-SEC Commissioner Roel Campos: We Should Not Initiate Risky Experiments in the Credit Markets,” Fox Business, January 4, 2020
  • Speaker, "Guiding Principles for Cyber Risk Governance," Webcast, July 18, 2018 
  • Coauthored: Guiding Principles for Cyber Risk Governance (July 2018)
  • Moderator, "SEC Enforcement Practice III," Regulatory Compliance Association, Webcast, March 27, 2018
  • Coauthored a cybersecurity guide for directors: Primer on Cybersecurity for Boards of Directors (January 2018)
  • Authored:  What Directors Need to Know in 2018 About Board Diversity (March 2018)
  • Speaker, “Regulation in 2018,” NICSA, March 2018
  • Speaker, “The SEC Speaks,” Panels by Division of Enforcement and Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, February 2018
  • Quoted in “Trump’s SEC Makes Slow Progress on Trimming Rules,” The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2018
  • Speaker, “Enforcement and Insider Trading: Emerging Issues and SEC Priorities in 2018,” RCA Symposium, New York City, November 7, 2017
  • Speaker, “Enforcement Practice 2017: Part II,” RCA Symposium, New York City, May 18, 2017
  • Speaker, “Enforcement Practice 2017: Part I,” RCA Symposium, Bermuda, April 27, 2017
  • Speaker, “SEC Enforcement Under Trump,” PracticEdge Curriculum, December 8, 2016
  • Speaker, “Enforcement 2016: New Priorities, Initiatives, and Latest Developments,” RCA Symposium, New York City, November 2, 2016
  • Speaker, “The SEC Speaks: Compliance Inspections and Examinations,” Practising Law Institute, Washington, DC, Feb. 20, 2015
  • “Global Capital Markets Perspectives,” Practising Law Institute, April 25, 2012
  • Speaker, “Regulation & Risk Thought Leadership Symposium,” Regulatory Compliance Association, April 16, 2012
  • Speaker, “Shaping the Future,” Council of Institutional Investors’ Spring Conference, April 3, 2012
  • Speaker, “Demonize the Executives: Corporate Governance in a Post Dodd-Frank World,” Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) 11th Annual Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Expo, March 21, 2012
  • “Roel Campos on Standardizing Accounting Principles, Self-Funding the SEC,” Outside Publication, Bloomberg Brief, Feb. 24, 2012
  • Speaker, “Board Diversity and Composition: Hiring, Firing and Evaluating the New Realities of Governance,” Seventh Annual Directors’ College for Stanford University, June 21, 2011
  • Speaker, “Anti-Corruption Risk Assessments and Third-Party Due Diligence,” GCM Parker’s Second Annual Business Ethics Anti-Corruption & Fraud Prevention Strategies in CEE, SEE & CIS, Prague, March 24, 2011
  • Coauthored, "The Retirement Protection Gap: Unequal Disclosures for Retirement Investors," BNA Pension & Benefits Reporter (March 2006)
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Education
  • Harvard Law School, J.D., 1979
  • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), MBA, 1972
  • U.S. Air Force Academy, B.S., 1971
Bar Admissions
  • California
  • District of Columbia
Languages
  • Spanish
Areas of Focus
Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations
Corporate Governance
Defense Industry
Private Funds and Asset Management
Securities Enforcement
Securities Litigation
White Collar & Regulatory Defense

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