Emily Renshaw focuses her practice on securities enforcement and litigation matters. Emily represents public companies and their officers, directors, and board committees, as well as financial services firms, hedge funds, private companies, and their executives, in regulatory and internal investigations, examinations, and civil litigation. Emily represents clients in enforcement and examination proceedings brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and state regulators, and before federal and state trial and appellate courts across the United States.
Emily counsels clients in regulatory matters concerning insider trading, accounting and disclosure issues, internal controls, whistleblower-related issues, and more. Individual directors, officers, and executives look to Emily to defend them in regulatory actions and private litigation where their reputations are at stake.
Active in pro bono work, Emily represents individuals and nonprofit organizations in investigations and litigation matters.
While in law school, Emily served as a judicial extern for Judge Nancy Gertner of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Up and Coming, Litigation: Securities. Massachusetts, Chambers USA (2024)
Recommended, Dispute resolution: Securities litigation: defense, The Legal 500 US (2021)
Member, Law Firm of the Year, Securities Regulation, US News/Best Lawyers – Best Law Firms (2019)
Rising Star, Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2013–2019)
Member, Boston Bar Association
Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association