Who We Are
Jan Slinn
Ms. Slinn has practiced in the field of securities law for more than 25 years. Ms. Slinn specializes in investment advisor and broker-dealer compliance issues as well as representation of issuers and placement agents in private placements and corporate transactions. She has extensive experience in domestic and international financial markets, having drafted the securities laws and regulations of numerous countries, and consulted in emerging markets throughout Asia, Eastern Europe, the NIS and Latin America. As a consultant, Ms. Slinn developed regulatory oversight structures, counseled securities commissioners on critical policy directions, and wrote model commercial contracts and rules for securities depositories, stock exchanges, and broker-dealers. Prior to her consulting career, she acted as special counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and practiced corporate and securities law at major Northwest law firms. Ms. Slinn was also a certified public accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Seattle. As a director of a financial advisory practice at that firm, she analyzed accounting issues in connection with large class-action securities cases and SEC investigations, and testified as an expert witness regarding damages and financial issues in deposition, arbitration and trial. Ms. Slinn is a member of the Washington Bar Association, and the principal author of the publications "Building a Securities Market Regulator in an Emerging Market," "Internationalization of the Securities Markets: Moving Away from Section 5," and co-author of "Going Public," a guide to going public published by R.R. Donnelley. She is an Arbitrator with FINRA. Ms. Slinn graduated, cum laude, in 1979 from Notre Dame Law School, where she was on the law review.