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Leslie Norwood
Leslie M. Norwood is Managing Director and Associate General Counsel of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). She has served SIFMA and its predecessor organizations since 2004. Ms. Norwood is responsible for the legal, regulatory and market practice initiatives of the Association relating to all municipal securities products.
Prior to joining SIFMA, Ms. Norwood was an Associate in the Corporate and Securities department at Greenberg Traurig. She also spent 6 years as an Associate in the Public Finance department of Sidley Austin LLP (formerly known as Brown & Wood LLP) where she represented bond issuers, borrowers and underwriters in fixed and variable rate transactions; general obligation, subject to appropriation and revenue bond (public power, education, health care and cultural institutions) transactions; and transactions with credit enhancement.
Ms. Norwood received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from Boston University School of Law. She is a member of the New York, New Jersey and California Bars.
Committees
- SEC Instituting Proceedings on FINRA and the MRSB’s Proposals to Shorten Trade Reporting Timelines in Fixed-Income Markets (SIFMA and SIFMA AMG)
- Request for Information on Impacts of MSRB Rules on Small Firms
- Proposed Rule Change To Amend MSRB Rule G– 47, on Time of Trade Disclosure, To Codify and Retire Certain Existing Interpretive Guidance and New Time of Trade Disclosure Scenarios