Securities Docket Honors O’Melveny's Michele Wein Layne and Jorge deNeve
November 3, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES—November 3, 2025—O’Melveny's Michele Wein Layne and Jorge deNeve have each been recognized among the nation’s leading securities-focused lawyers by Securities Docket.
Layne has been inducted into Securities Docket’s 2025 “Hall of Fame,” which recognizes “lawyers who have made the most extraordinary contributions to, and impact upon, the field of securities enforcement over their lifetimes.” This is the first update to the inaugural eight-person class of its Enforcement Hall of Fame in 2014. And both Layne and deNeve have been named to Securities Docket’s 2025 “Enforcement Elite,” which recognizes “the best securities enforcement defense counsel in the industry.”
After a distinguished career at the US Securities and Exchange Commission where she served as the Los Angeles regional director for more than a decade, Layne serves as of counsel in O’Melveny’s White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations Practice Group in Los Angeles, advising clients on securities-related enforcement matters, internal and regulatory investigations, and governance and compliance issues.
A former enforcement attorney in the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Los Angeles office, deNeve is a Los Angeles-based partner in O’Melveny’s White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations Practice Group who advises clients on government investigations and private securities litigation and arbitrations.
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