Austin G. McComb

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.