Stephen Jacques Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Represented clients responding to government investigations and proceedings.
• Served as lead attorney on criminal and civil internal investigations, compliance audits, and due diligence reviews world-wide.
• Represented companies involved in complex commercial civil litigation, including securities fraud class actions, contract disputes, and civil fraud actions.
• Counseled companies on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, corporate governance best practices, board and audit committee responsibilities, and director and officer liability.

• Taught Legal Rhetoric, Writing, and Research course to first year law students, focusing on legal reasoning, analysis, writing, and research, introductory advocacy, and fundamental lawyering skills.

• Engaged in financing and transactions practice, representing investment banks, domestic and multinational corporations, multilateral development banks, and foreign sovereigns.
• Facilitated capital markets transactions including registered public offerings, IPOs, and private offerings, and assisted with project financings, structured finance transactions, and derivative transactions.
• Advised clients regarding SEC reporting compliance, general corporate matters, and international law issues.
• Engaged in same practice as associate from 1998 to 1999, and as summer associate in 1997.

• Served as judicial law clerk to federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

• Wrote music and arts reviews and feature pieces for publications including Rolling Stone, The Boston Phoenix, and The Glasgow Herald.

J.D.

Activities and Societies: The American University Law Review, The American Jurist, Human Rights Brief• Editor-in-Chief of The American.

B.A., English

Activities and Societies: The Heights, Arts & Sciences Honor Society• Editorial board member of The Heights student newspaper • Member of.