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Mary M. Sjoquist
Special Counsel
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Mary M. Sjoquist is currently Special Counsel to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB"). In this capacity, Ms. Sjoquist works directly with Board Members and senior staff of the PCAOB in formulating the rules required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, new and revised auditing standards and other policies affecting registered public accounting firms.
Prior to joining the PCAOB, Ms. Sjoquist was a partner at Patton Boggs LLP, a large national law firm, where she chaired the firm's Business Practice group. Ms. Sjoquist has been a securities practitioner for more than 20 years and has focused her practice on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, representation of public companies reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission, crisis management and corporate governance. In addition to her private practice experience, Ms. Sjoquist also spent four years with the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance.
Ms. Sjoquist has been a frequent speaker and has appeared on many panels particularly in the area of corporate governance, crisis management, auditor regulation and securities regulation. She has a JD degree from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and a BA degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association and is active in the American Bar Association's Federal Regulation of Securities Committee and the Securities Subcommittee of the Small Business Committee.
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