Veteran SEC, Accounting Oversight Board Counsel Joins Ernst & Young

Liban Jama, a veteran federal regulator and former in-housecounsel, has joined Ernst & Young as a partner in its fraudinvestigation and dispute services practice in Washington D.C.

Libans views on corporate governance and compliance, as wellas his experience handling a variety of anti-corruption, fraud andbribery matters, can help our clients develop programs that cankeep up with shifting compliance scenarios. He will be a valuedaddition to our team, Brian Loughman, EY Americas FIDS leader,said in the June 21 announcement of Jamas hire.

Jama most recently served as senior advisor of legal, policy andstrategy at the Public CompanyAccounting Oversight Board in its division of enforcement andinvestigations. Before that, he spent nearly a decade at theU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission where he served as senioradvisor to then-SEC Chair Mary Jo White , who isnow litigation partner and senior chair at Debevoise &Plimpton.

He also has served as counsel to former SEC Commissioner LuisAguilar, and as senior counsel in the SECs Foreign CorruptPractices Act unit, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Jama began his career at Arnold & Porter in Washington wherehe focused on corporate and securities matters.

He has spoken extensively on finance topics including fraud,anti-corruption, the FCPA and compliance related issues. He talkedabout his work at the PCAOB last year in a video for the Center forAudit Quality.