Andrew Neill Vollmer (born August 14, 1953) is an American
lawyer
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. He retired as partner in the securities department at law firm
WilmerHale
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.
Prior to April 2009, he had been Deputy General Counsel for the
United States
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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(SEC)
[ and acting ]General Counsel
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.Meyer Eisenberg Meyer may refer to:
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*Meyer (surname), listing people so named
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* Meyer Burger, a Swiss mechanical engineering company
* Meyer Corporation
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as Deputy General Counsel, who retired from the Commission in early January 2006[ and former General Counsel Brian Cartwright who left the Commission for the private sector in January 2009.][
]
Education
Mr. Vollmer received his J.D. in 1978 from the University of Virginia School of Law
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, where he served as Notes Editor of the Virginia Law Review. He earned his B.A. from Miami University
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.[
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Before the SEC
He was previously a partner in the international law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, also known as Hale & Dorr and WilmerHale, is an international law firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. It is co-headquartered in Washington, D.C. and Boston. It was formed in 2004 thr ...
LLP where he served as Vice Chair of the firm's Securities Department and previously served as one of two partners managing the firm's London
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office. He is co-author of a monograph on "Internal Corporate Investigations."
Tenure at SEC
As acting General Counsel, Vollmer was quickly thrust into the news media's attention as he testified on February 4, 2009 before the United States House Committee on Financial Services
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subcommittee with SEC Director of the Division of Enforcement Linda Thomsen
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and other senior staff from the SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The subject of the hearings were on why the SEC had failed to act when Harry Markopolos
Harry M. Markopolos (born October 22, 1956) is an American former securities industry executive and a forensic accounting and financial fraud investigator.
From 1999 to 2008, Markopolos uncovered evidence that suggested that Bernie Madoff's wea ...
, a private fraud investigator from Boston alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission detailing his persistent and unsuccessful efforts to get the SEC to investigate Bernard L. Madoff
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, beginning in 1999.Paul Kanjorski
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The district included the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Hazleton, as ...
and Representative Gary Ackerman.[
On 18 February 2009, 14 days later, the SEC announced that Vollmer would 'leave the Commission and return to the private sector'.]
References
External links
Written testimony (not a transcript)
Video of Congressman Gary Ackerman questioning Andy Vollmer, SEC Acting General Counsel on claiming Executive Privilege
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1953 births
Living people
American lawyers
University of Virginia School of Law alumni
Miami University alumni
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partners