Lauren Jackson

Lauren Jackson is counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she advises financial services firms on regulatory, compliance, and enforcement matters. She practices across the firm’s Financial Institutions, Global Financial Regulatory, Fintech and Digital Assets, Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance, Securities Enforcement, White Collar Defense and Investigations, and Investment Funds practice groups.

Ms. Jackson represents a broad range of industry participants, including global financial institutions, broker-dealers, investment advisers, fund companies, private equity and hedge fund managers, public companies, swap dealers, commodities traders, and fintech companies. Her advisory work spans enterprise-wide compliance across platforms and business lines, the implementation of new regulations, expansion into new business activities and associated regulatory requirements, including the use of emerging technology such as AI and related disclosure obligations, supervisory and internal controls, cross-border securities activities, and digital assets. She has extensive experience managing investigations and enforcement proceedings involving systemic compliance failures, supervision deficiencies, sales practice violations, and alleged breaches of fiduciary duties. She has represented clients before the SEC, CFTC, FINRA, DOJ, CBOE, CME, NFA, many different NASAA task force groups, state securities divisions, and state attorneys general. She advises on the collateral consequences of enforcement, civil, and criminal actions and engages with FINRA and SEC staff regarding waivers, no-action relief, and interpretive guidance for domestic and non-U.S. entities.