Marty Dunn

Partner

Martin Dunn is a partner in O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office and a member of the Corporate Finance Practice. Prior to joining O’Melveny, Marty was Deputy Director, and former Acting Director, of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance. In addition, while at the SEC, Marty held other positions in the Division of Corporation Finance, including Associate Director (Legal and Operations) and Chief Counsel.

Illustrative Professional Experience

Before he joined O'Melveny, Marty spent twenty years in various positions at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  In his last five years at the Commission, he was Deputy Director, Division of Corporation Finance, during which time he supervised that Division’s Offices of Chief Counsel, Chief Accountant, Mergers and Acquisitions, International Corporate Finance, Rulemaking, Small Business, and Enforcement Liaison.

While at the SEC, Marty was responsible for a wide range of rulemakings, some of these include:

• Proxy Access Proposals (2007)
• Regulation D Proposed Modernization (2007)
• Form D Proposed Electronic Requirements (2007)
• Smaller Reporting Company Proposed Disclosure System (2007)
• Rule 144 Proposed Simplification (2007)
• Form S-3 Proposed Expansion (2007)
• Section 12(g) Proposed Exemption for Options (2007)
• Foreign Private Issuer Deregistration (2007)
• Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (2007)
• Tender Offer Best Price Rules (2006)
• Shell Company Rules (2005)
• Securities Offering Reform (2005)
• Section 12(d) Modernization (2005)
• Nominating Committee Disclosure (2003)
• Regulation G (Non-GAAP Financials) (2003)
• Exemption for Standardized Options (2002)
• Householding of Proxy Materials (2000)
• Financial Statements for Guarantors (2000)
• Rule 504 Amendments (1999)
• Plain English Disclosure Requirements (1998)
• Rule 144 Amendments (1997)
• Additional Small Business Initiatives (1993)
• Small Business Initiatives (1992)

Professional Activities

Speaker, “Fundamentals of Securities Law,” ALI-ABA, Various locations; “Rocky Mountain Securities Conference,” Colorado Bar Association, Denver, CO; “Northwest Securities Institute,” Oregon Bar Association, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia; “Securities Regulation and Business Law Problems,” University of Texas, Dallas, TX; “Annual Institute on Securities Regulation,” Practising Law Institute, New York, NY; “Annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute,” Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL; “SEC Speaks,” Practising Law Institute, Washington, D.C. (Co-Chair, 2006); “Los Angeles County Bar Association Securities Regulation Seminar,” Los Angeles, CA; “Annual Securities Regulation Institute,” Northwestern University School of Law, Coronado, CA; “Advanced Securities Law Workshop,” Practising Law Institute, San Diego, CA; “Regulation D Offerings and Private Placements,” ALI-ABA, Scottsdale, AZ
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, “Current Issues in Securities Regulation,” (1998-2003)
Recipient, SEC Capital Markets Award (2001, 2002, 2006); SEC Regulatory Simplification Award (2005); SEC Law and Policy Award (2000, 2004); SEC Chairman’s Award for Excellence (2000); Federal Bar Association’s Philip A. Loomis, Jr. Award (1998); SEC Chairman's Plain English Award (1998); SEC Supervisory Excellence Award (1995)