Chanel T. Rowe is Counsel in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Miami Regional Office. As an enforcement attorney, she is responsible for conducting investigations into possible violations of federal securities laws, recommending the Commission bring civil actions in federal district courts or in administrative proceedings before an administrative law judge, and litigating those cases once they are filed.
Before joining the SEC, Ms. Rowe clerked for two years with an esteemed federal jurist, Senior Judge Donald L. Graham, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Prior to that, she practiced at two AmLaw 100 firms, Akerman LLP and Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P, where she represented companies in complex commercial litigation and defended pharmaceutical companies in product liability actions, respectively. During law school, Ms. Rowe served as a judicial intern to Chief Judge Melanie G. May of the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal, worked as a Summer Associate, and contributed to an American Bar Association publication entitled The FCPA and the UK Bribery Act A Ready Reference for Business and Lawyers.