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Nathan W.Lamb

Partnermoc.eniHnospmohT@bmaL.nahtaN
Chicago

O 312.998.4283

Nathan W.Lamb

Partner

Focus Areas

Examples of Nathan’s experience include:

  • Defending FINRA, SEC, and state investigations and enforcement actions involving alleged sales practice violations, including unsuitable recommendations, churning, misrepresentations, unauthorized trading, and supervisory failures.
  • Defending FINRA, SEC, and state investigations and enforcement actions involving anti-money laundering (AML), registration issues, net capital requirements, Regulation S-P, and other non-sales practice matters.
  • Defending customer complaints and arbitrations across a wide range of matters.
  • Experience with a broad range of products, including limited partnerships, private placements, tenant-in-common interests (TICs), Delaware statutory trusts (DSTs), real estate investment trusts (REITs), and traditional securities.
  • Representing industry members at all levels of broker-dealers and RIAs in on-the-record (OTR) testimony before FINRA or the SEC.
  • Counseling industry participants on responding to FINRA Rule 8210 requests and SEC subpoenas.
  • Advising on avoidance of statutory disqualification (SD) and assisting with MC-400 applications seeking re-admittance following disqualification.
  • Assisting broker-dealers with supervisory system structure, drafting written supervisory procedures, preparing membership applications, and liaising with securities regulators.
  • Assisting clients with the registration of digital assets and custody-related issues.
  • Advising clients in SEC and FINRA inquiries involving crypto-related offerings.
  • Illinois State Bar Association

Education

  • Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., 2005,

    associate editor, Northwestern University Law Review

  • University of Iowa, B.B.A., 1997

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois