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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
700 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001-5692
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Michael Loesch
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Michael Loesch counsels clients with respect to CFTC and SEC enforcement investigations and compliance matters, including those involving energy trading and derivatives market activity. He has extensive enforcement and compliance experience that stems from his private practice and more than 14 years of federal regulatory and legislative service. He previously served in senior leadership positions at the CFTC and the SEC.
Mr. Loesch served as the Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer at the CFTC from 2007 to 2009, providing counsel on energy market oversight, enforcement investigations, futures market surveillance, derivatives clearing and litigation. Prior to the CFTC, he spent over six years at the SEC, serving as Branch Chief in the Division of Enforcement as well as Counsel to the Chairman, where he provided legal advice regarding many of the highest-profile SEC enforcement proceedings at the time.
Before joining the SEC, Michael served in various roles as a staffer in the U.S. Senate, including as Counsel, U.S. Senate’s Committee on Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services. In that capacity, Michael worked on the Committee’s year-long investigation of campaign finance abuse and foreign influence in the 1996 federal elections. He also staffed U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi during hearings and investigations conducted by the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Memberships
District of Columbia Bar
Pennsylvania Bar
Education
J.D., University of San Diego School of Law 1993
B.A., Pennsylvania State University 1990
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense