Gerald . LaPorte
Securities and Exchange Commission
Gerald J. Laporte has served since 2002 as Chief of the Office of Small Business Policy in
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance. The
office administers rules relating to private and limited securities offerings by smaller and
emerging companies and business and financial disclosure to investors by smaller publicly
traded companies. Mr. Laporte has practiced law in Washington, D.C. since 1976. Before
rejoining the SEC in 2002, he practiced securities and corporate law with the firm of Hogan
& Hartson LLP. He had worked at the SEC from 1982 to 1987 as Senior Special Counsel,
Legislation and Investment Management, in the Office of the General Counsel and as
Counsel to SEC Commissioner Joseph A. Grundfest. In the 1970’s, he had worked as
Legislative Assistant to a U.S. Congressman and served as Law Clerk to U.S. District Judge
John H. Pratt in Washington, D.C. Mr. Laporte served as Chairman of the Corporation
Finance and Securities Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar from 1997 to 1998. Mr.
Laporte holds a law degree, awarded with honors, from the George Washington University
Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the law review. He also holds an M.A.
degree in Political Science from Georgetown University, and degrees from the University of
Ottawa, Canada, and Sacred Heart Seminary College, Detroit.
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