Lizzie Baird
Partner
Lizzie Baird is a partner in O’Melveny & Myers’ Washington, DC office and a member of our Securities Enforcement and Regulatory Counseling Practice. Lizzie concentrates her practice on securities enforcement defense, internal investigations, regulatory and corporate counseling. Lizzie routinely represents broker-dealers, public companies, investment advisers, and individuals in connection with investigations before the Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA, New York Stock Exchange, and other self-regulatory organizations and government agencies.
Having traded municipal bonds on Wall Street for nearly ten years, Lizzie has experience with the daily activities and needs of active participants in the securities markets. She frequently counsels securities firms, public companies and individuals regarding compliance with federal and state securities laws and securities industry regulations.
Reported Decisions
In the Matter of Del Mar Financial Services ,
et al., Admin. Proc. 3-9959 (Aug. 14, 2001).
Illustrative Professional Experience
- Representing broker-dealers in enforcement actions by both state and federal securities regulators into certain variable annuity sales practices
- Representing a CFO of a public company in an investigation into financial fraud
- Representing a broker-dealer in an investigation into certain stock loan practices
- Representing former Enron president Jeffrey K. Skilling in various investigations
- Representing an investment adviser in the mutual fund investigations initiated by the SEC and N.Y. Attorney General Spitzer
- Representing a public corporation in a disclosure matter before the SEC
- Representing a market maker in a manipulation investigation conducted by the NASD
- Representing a public corporation in an investigation of proxy solicitation violations before the SEC
- Representing a silver trader in an investigation by the CFTC
- Representing a major wire house in the SEC’s yield burning investigation
- Representing a clearing broker in litigation before the SEC
- Representing a clearing broker in a net capital investigation by the NASD
- Representing an investment adviser in an insider trading investigation by the SEC
- Representing a public corporation in a foreign corrupt practices investigation before the SEC
- Conducting an investigation for a public company into short sales of its common stock.
- Conducting an internal investigation for a major wire house with respect to certain municipal bond underwriting issues
- Conducting an internal investigation for a corporation with respect to certain accounting issues
- Conducting an internal investigation for a public corporation regarding certain internal controls
- Conducting an internal investigation for a major investment banker with respect to allegations of insider trading
Professional Activities
Member, American Bar Association