Troy Paredes Sworn In as SEC Commissioner

WASHINGTON - Troy Paredes, a securities law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, was sworn in Friday as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Paredes, a Republican whose academic research revolved around executive compensation, hedge funds, the allocation of control within firms, as well as the impact of psychology on corporate decision making and investor behavior, replaced Paul Atkins and will serve a five-year term that expires June 5, 2013.

He is one of three new SEC members. Elisse Walter, a Democrat and former senior executive vice president of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, came aboard July 9. Luis A. Aguilar, a former partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP in Atlanta, was sworn in Thursday.

Before joining Washington University's faculty in 2001, Paredes was in private practice, working on a variety of transactions and matters involving financings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance, the SEC said in a statement.

Paredes graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in economics in 1992, and graduated from Yale Law School in 1996.

 

For reprint and licensing requests for this article, click here.
Bankruptcy
MORE FROM BOND BUYER