Susan Gault-Brown is a partner in the Financial Services Group of Morrison & Foerster’s Washington, D.C. office. She serves as chair of the firm’s Investment Management Group and co-chair of the firm’s Blockchain + Smart Contracts Group. Susan advises participants in the investment management, FinTech, and financial services industries—including investment advisers, exempt reporting advisers, broker-dealers, funding portals, private funds, commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators, FinTech companies, and cryptocurrency and blockchain companies—on regulatory, transactional, and counseling matters involving the securities and derivatives laws. Susan was named a “notable practitioner” in the inaugural Chambers FinTech 2018 guide and is a member of the Task Force on Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Investment Management of the ABA Subcommittee on Investment Companies and Investment Advisers. In addition to 15 years in private practice, Susan also spent three years as a senior counsel in the Division of Investment Management’s Office of Chief Counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Susan received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. She was a third-year visiting student at Stanford Law School, received her M.A. in English literature from Washington University, and received her B.A. magna cum laude from Duke University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.