McKenna Long & Aldridge partner Luis Aguilar will break with tradition when he’s formally appointed a commissioner of the Securitie
s and Exchange Commission.
Aguilar’s official swearing-in will be in Atlanta—not Washington, where the SEC is headquartered. Aguilar wanted the SEC’s Atlanta office to be the site of his swearing-in because that’s where he began his legal career, said Kit Addleman, SEC regional director in Atlanta.
“This is his way of providing a tribute to his roots here, to his beginnings as a young staff SEC lawyer,” Addleman said.
The swearing-in, by invitation only, is scheduled for Thursday, July 31 at 9 a.m. Aguilar will also have an unofficial swearing-in at the SEC offices in Washington, Addleman said.
Elisse B. Walter was sworn in as SEC commissioner on July 9 at the SEC's headquarters in Washington.
Aguilar’s primary office will be in Washington, but he will also maintain a satellite office in the Atlanta SEC office. That’s not uncommon, Addleman said. Other SEC commissioners have done the same: former commissioner Roel Campos maintained an office in Houston and former commissioner Norman S. Johnson kept an office in Salt Lake City.
Aguilar said that when he officially becomes an SEC commissioner, he’ll resign as a partner of McKenna Long & Aldridge, as per SEC rules.