Experience 

Michele (Mitch) Lew Gibbons is a member of the Financial Services Regulatory and Enforcement practice.  Mitch conducts a comprehensive securities regulatory and compliance practice with a particular focus on investment adviser, broker-dealer and private investment fund matters. Specifically, Mitch counsels investment advisers, broker-dealers, and private investment funds, including private equity funds, hedge funds, funds of funds and registered investment companies on organizational, regulatory, compliance and transactional matters and advises companies and investors in related transactions. She also advises clients on regulatory issues involving anti-money laundering, privacy, disaster recovery, insider trading and international securities issues. She is a frequent speaker at national and industry conferences and contributes to several industry publications.

Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2002, Mitch practiced law at several prominent law firms in New York. She practices from the firm’s Houston and New York offices.

Education 

New York University School of Law, JD, 1998; Notes Editor, Annual Survey of American Law • Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, MPP, 1995; Editorial Board, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy • Trinity University, BA, with honors, magna cum laude, 1993; Member, Phi Beta Kappa

Admitted

• New York, 1999