Charles Riely

Charles Riely is a partner at Jenner & Block LLP. As a lawyer at the SEC for more than a decade, he handled a number of significant matters, working extensively with criminal authorities in parallel investigations, and developing deep expertise in all aspects of the federal securities laws. At the SEC, he received the Ferdinand Pecora for tenacity, creativity and efficiency.  His background enables him to counsel clients on their most complex legal and compliance issues.

Mr. Riely most recently served as Assistant Regional Director for the Division of Enforcement for the SEC. Mr. Riely’s matters at the SEC generally entailed highly complex issues and included some of the most significant actions filed by the SEC during his tenure. These included matters against large hedge funds for insider trading, valuation fraud and other violations. He was also one of the original members of the Market Abuse Unit and worked on a number of market manipulation cases as well as cases involving dark pools.

While at the SEC, he worked on matters involving disclosure failures by public companies; alleged fraud and regulatory violations by investment advisers and broker-dealers; insider trading; anti-money laundering violations; “spoofing” and other forms of market manipulation; failure-to-supervise violations; the adequacy of firms’ cyber-security procedures and protections; and a variety of other fraud and regulatory matters.