Nancy Grunberg

Nancy R. Grunberg is the head of Venable's SEC and White Collar Defense practice group. She focuses her practice on securities law and financial disclosure matters. Ms. Grunberg helps clients address and resolve situations when there may be financial fraud, securities violations, accounting manipulation or other financial wrongdoing. Ms. Grunberg spent nine years with the SEC over two separate stints, from 1996 to 2002 and from 1988 to 1992. Her immediate position prior to joining Venable was Assistant Director in the Division of Enforcement. Prior to holding that position at the SEC, Ms. Grunberg served as Litigation Counsel for the Office of International Affairs (1999-2000) and Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel for the Division of Enforcement. From 1992-96, Ms. Grunberg practiced securities, banking and commercial litigation in private practice in Washington. She previously spent seven years (1981-88) as a litigation associate in the Washington office of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she developed a specialty defending accountants and auditors in both SEC investigations and private civil litigation. As an experienced trial attorney, since joining Venable, Ms. Grunberg has defended a broad variety of clients in SEC and criminal securities investigations. She represents public companies, non-public companies, officers and directors of public companies, accountants, and individuals who work in the securities industry. She also has worked on several large internal corporate investigations. As an Assistant Director in the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission from August 2000 to September 2002 she supervised dozens of investigations, many of which resulted in the filing of judicial or administrative enforcement actions. These cases involved accounting fraud and improper financial reporting as well as Internet fraud, insider trading, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and various fraudulent international financial schemes.