Tracy Combs is a former Regional Director at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tracy counsels corporations, financial institutions, and individuals regarding complex investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters, including those involving the SEC, the Department of Justice, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and other law enforcement agencies and financial regulators.
During her eight-year tenure at the SEC, Tracy served in a variety of roles in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, most recently as Director of the SEC's Salt Lake Regional Office, where she oversaw some of the office's most high-profile and impactful enforcement actions. As a former SEC trial attorney and senior counsel in the Division of Enforcement, Tracy brought several groundbreaking actions, including the SEC's first cybersecurity disclosure enforcement action involving a public company's failure to disclose a massive data breach and an insider trading action against a biopharmaceutical executive in the Northern District of California, identified in the media as the first "shadow" insider trading case. Tracy served for three years in the Division of Enforcement's Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, where she co-led its Cybersecurity & Regulated Entities working group. In 2021 to 2022, Tracy served as counsel to the Director of Enforcement, advising on priority enforcement actions and coordinating with the SEC's criminal and civil law enforcement partners nationwide.
Prior to her government service, Tracy was a litigator at a large law firm in Philadelphia and New York, with a focus on high-stakes white collar criminal matters, securities class actions, and complex commercial disputes, and clerked for the Honorable Luis Felipe Restrepo in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
