O’Melveny Worldwide

GAIM Ops West: Inside the SEC and DOJ

October 8, 2025

O’Melveny Of Counsel Michele Layne will be a featured guest speaker joining three distinguished panelists at GAIM Ops West conference. The event aims to redefine excellence in alternative investment operations by bringing together over 350 leading executives and senior legal and compliance professionals to discuss trends, challenges, and expertise as well as providing insight and connection on future projections for the industry. 

Prior to joining O’Melveny, Michele was the Regional Director of the SEC's Los Angeles office for more than a decade where she managed nearly 200 staff and oversaw all of the office’s enforcement investigations, litigation, and examinations of SEC registrants in a four state region. She was the longest serving female regional director and one of the longest serving senior enforcement leaders in the agency’s history. During nearly three decades at the SEC, Michele led high-profile enforcement actions covering every facet of the SEC’s jurisdiction including matters involving financial reporting and accounting, disclosure, auditor misconduct, asset managers, insider trading, broker-dealers, market manipulation, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and anti-money laundering. 


GAIM Ops West: Redefining excellence in alternative investment operations

October 5-8, 2025
Dana Point, CA

Inside the SEC and DOJ

October 8
10:30 am – 11:00 am

Learn more and register here.