Scott Pomfret

Who is Scott Pomfret?

Scott D. Pomfret is a securities lawyer based in Boston, Massachusetts. Pomfret currently serves as Regulatory Counsel at a private investment firm, where he is responsible for legal and regulatory compliance, including with the rules and regulations of the SEC, CFTC, NFA, Department of Labor, and other domestic and foreign regulators. Previously, Pomfret was the Director of PricewaterhouseCooper’s Financial Services Regulatory Practice, where he conducted compliance reviews of U.S. and U.K. advisers to hedge, real estate, and private equity funds, as well as mutual fund complexes and insurance company asset management affiliates.

From 2003 to 2010, Pomfret was a branch chief in the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Boston office. He has led investigations of market timing, stock options backdating, financial fraud, insider trading, and investment advisor and hedge fund fraud. His trials include a stint as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts in a successful perjury trial against a former general counsel of a public company and a three-week market manipulation trial against three former brokers. In 2007 and 2008, Pomfret won the Division Director’s Award. Pomfret was a member of the SEC's Hedge Fund Working Group and was appointed the first co-chair of an affinity group for GLBT employees and helped inaugurate the SEC’s first gay pride celebration in 2008.