George Schieren is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Securities Litigation, Securities Enforcement, Crisis Management, and White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Groups.
Mr. Schieren’s practice focuses on securities litigation, regulatory enforcement proceedings, internal investigations and crisis management. He has more than three decades of experience in SEC and securities regulation, litigation and corporate governance. He has been involved in high-profile, major securities class actions, such as the IPO allocation cases for Merrill Lynch and the Parmalat class action for Citigroup, and has represented many major financial institutions in SEC and self-regulatory organization proceedings.
Most recently, Mr. Schieren was a partner at Clifford Chance US LLP where he was co-head of its Securities Litigation, Regulatory and White Collar practice group.
A prominent figure in the New York financial and legal communities, Mr. Schieren previously served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, then the largest broker-dealer in the U.S. He also served as Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., and was a member of its Executive Management Committee from 2000-2003. Before that, he served as Chief of Branch Enforcement and then Assistant Regional Administrator of the New York Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mr. Schieren has lectured extensively on numerous subjects, including securities laws, ethics and corporate governance.
Mr. Schieren graduated from Queens College in 1971 and cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 1974.