Steven Peikin was named Co-Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement in June 2017.  From 1996 to 2004, Mr. Peikin served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York.  He was Chief of the Office's Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, where he supervised some of the nation's highest profile prosecutions of accounting fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, and abuses in the foreign exchange market.  As a prosecutor, Mr. Peikin also personally investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of securities, commodities, and other investment fraud schemes, as well as other crimes. Most recently, Mr. Peikin was Managing Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell's Criminal Defense and Investigations Group. His practice focused on white-collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement, and internal investigations. Mr. Peikin also is Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University Law School, where he teaches a class on the criminal enforcement of securities and commodities laws. Mr. Peikin received his bachelor's degree from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard Law School, both magna cum laude.

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