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Washington, D.C. Office1900 K Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States of America 20006-1110
Austin G. McComb focuses his practice on the investment management and banking industries. He regularly advises investment funds such as mutual funds, money market funds, exchange-traded funds and closed-end funds and their investment advisers, as well as banks and other financial institutions on various regulatory and compliance matters. For investment fund and adviser clients, Mr. McComb regularly works on launching new fund products under the federal securities laws, registration statement disclosure updates, responding to requests from the SEC staff, and ongoing fund governance matters. He has notable experience advising clients on SEC rulemakings, specifically money market fund reforms and "names rule” amendments.
Mr. McComb counsels bank and financial institution clients on the application of laws and regulations administered by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the U.S. Treasury, the Financial Stability Oversight Counsel, and state regulatory agencies. Mr. McComb also has experience advising clients regarding the application of the Bank Holding Company Act and the Volcker Rule to US and foreign companies, including investment funds.
During law school, Mr. McComb served as a law clerk at the Division of Examinations of the SEC and to a Board Member of the PCAOB.
- Fund Names Rule FAQs Leave Some Interpretative Uncertainty - Law360 (February 24, 2025)
- Money Market Funds: Comparison of Regulations in the United States and European Union – Catholic University Law Review (February 2025)
- Addressing Questions Under the Amended Registered Fund Names Rule – The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation (January 2025)
- The SEC’s Proposed Changes to its Names Rule – Volume 55, Number 22 of Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation (December 28, 2022)
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- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2022, cum laude, Executive Articles Editor Georgetown Law Journal, Institute of International Economic Law Fellow
- San José State University, B.A., 2017
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- California
- District of Columbia