Noreen Kelly Bio

Noreen serves as McGuireWoods’ Deputy Managing Partner for Litigation. She oversees and manages the firm’s five litigation departments in the U.S. and the UK. She is the former chair of the firm’s Government Investigations and White Collar Litigation Department, which Law360 selected for its prestigious “Practice Group of the Year” award for its notable work in 2019, and a member of the firm’s Financial Services & Securities Enforcement Department. Noreen focuses her practice on regulatory enforcement matters and commercial litigation in the securities and financial services spaces. Noreen has represented a wide variety of clients – financial institutions, broker dealers, investment advisors, and other public and private entities and executives – facing regulatory and criminal investigations and supervisory examinations by the DOJ, the SEC, FINRA, securities exchanges, as well as state attorneys general. She has conducted internal investigations on behalf of major financial institutions, audit committees and other entities involving, among other matters, alleged violations of securities and banking-related rules and regulations, accounting fraud, broker dealer compliance violations, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and general fraud and embezzlement. Noreen also counsels broker dealers on compliance matters, particularly in the areas of books & records compliance and transaction and non-financial regulatory reporting (e.g., Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), Large Option Position Reporting (LOPR), ACT and TRF reporting, and Electronic Bluesheets (EBS)). Noreen also represents clients in complex litigation, typically in parallel with related investigations, in state and federal courts, including in bankruptcy courts. Noreen clerked for Justice Marie L. Garibaldi on the Supreme Court of New Jersey during the 1999-2000 term.