Education
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Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
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New York University, B.F.A.
Bar Admissions
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District of Columbia
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California
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Carolyn Walsh is Of Counsel in the Financial Services and Tax Public Policy and Lobbying Group at Patton Boggs. She joined the firm in January 2011. Ms. Walsh advises firm clients on a wide range of capital markets legislative and rulemaking developments, as regulatory reform mandates expansive new regulations over the swaps and derivatives markets as well as systemically significant financial institutions and financial market utilities.
Ms. Walsh’s practice focuses on all areas of capital markets regulation, including the regulation of derivatives market participants (Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants) and newly created and regulated registered entities (Swap Data Repositories and Swap Execution Facilities). In addition to expertise in the area of derivatives regulation and the overlapping jurisdiction of the U.S. and foreign regulators, she is an expert on issues involving the designation of globally significant financial institutions and market utilities, the Volcker Rule, the Swap “Push-Out” Rule, credit rating agency reform, trends and issues in the fixed income markets as well as compliance and risk management issues facing banks and other major market participants. Ms. Walsh has practiced actively before Congress, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Treasury Department and other regulatory agencies that promulgate and implement financial reform regulation.
Before joining Patton Boggs, Ms. Walsh served as deputy general counsel for the ABA Securities Association (ABASA) and as a vice president and senior counsel for the American Bankers Association (ABA). While there, Ms. Walsh worked as an advocate for the banking industry before Congress and industry regulators, and led the Association’s lobbying efforts on several capital market provisions included in the Dodd-Frank Act.
Prior to her work with the ABA, Ms. Walsh served as the senior associate general counsel for the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) where she effectively implemented regulatory policy and industry initiatives, including significant revisions to the MSRB’s signature regulation on pay-to play, through rule writing, advocacy and interpretation. Early in her career, Ms. Walsh investigated financial fraud and insider trading for the SEC, and went on to defend clients in SEC investigations, including pay-to-play, municipal disclosure and market manipulation investigations at Crowell & Moring LLP and Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.
Professional Affiliations:
- American Bar Association
- District of Columbia Bar Association
- California Bar Association
- Women in Housing and Finance
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