Marie-Louise (Malou) Huth is a special counsel in S&C’s Investment Management and Financial Services Groups. Her practice focuses on advising investment advisers, private funds, registered funds, broker-dealers, exchanges, clearing agencies, and other financial institutions on a broad range of complex regulatory, compliance, legislative, and enforcement matters. She has a deep understanding of the Investment Company Act of 1940, Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Administrative Procedure Act, and her vast experience in the investment management and trading and markets spaces provides a unique insight into current issues in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rulemaking, examination, and enforcement contexts.

Malou rejoined the Firm in 2023 after having served over 10 years at the SEC in a number of senior leadership positions, most recently as an Associate General Counsel of Legal Policy where she led an office providing legal advice and policy analysis to the Commission, individual Commissioners, and the Commission’s divisions and offices on regulatory recommendations concerning investment advisers, funds, broker-dealers, exchanges, clearing agencies, and other registered entities. Malou routinely advised on issues surrounding rulemakings, including on the implementation of Regulation Best Interest, the Fiduciary Duty Interpretation, and the Investment Adviser Marketing Rule, among numerous other rulemaking proposals issued by the SEC in recent years, including on the Private Fund Advisers, the Use of Predictive Data Analytics by Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers, Treasury Clearing, Regulation Best Ex, Outsourcing by Investment Advisers, Enhanced Disclosures about ESG, and Open-end Fund Liquidity and Swing Pricing proposals, among others. She also worked with the Divisions of Enforcement and Examination on novel issues raised during enforcement investigations and examinations, including interpretations of the securities laws and the application of the securities laws to new technologies, such as blockchain and digital assets.