Corin R. Swift

CORIN SWIFT is a partner in Sidley’s Securities Enforcement and Regulatory (SER) group with extensive experience counseling broker-dealers, investment advisers and other financial institutions, public companies, and individuals in both internal and external investigations and enforcement proceedings. She regularly represents clients before regulators, including the SEC, the U.S. Department of Justice, FINRA, and state securities enforcement authorities, and she is well known for thoughtful, strategic handling of her clients’ matters. Much of Cri’s work involves defending clients facing multijurisdictional and overlapping investigations involving a wide range of issues, such as insider trading; cross-trades, mark-ups and disclosures; fixed-income pricing and disclosures; sales practice investigations and coordinated sweeps, among others. She has appeared in state and federal court, as well as FINRA arbitration proceedings on behalf of her clients. In addition to regulatory investigation and enforcement matters, Cri also handles related internal investigations, and she routinely provides advice to broker-dealers and registered investment advisers on compliance and supervisory systems. She has been recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” in 2018 and 2015 in Securities Regulation and is listed as a “Best Lawyer” in Securities/Capital Markets Law (2014–2020) in The Best Lawyers in America. Sidley’s SER group has consistently received the highest possible ranking in Chambers USA for “Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer” since 2014, and has been named “Law Firm of the Year” for Securities Regulation in 2024, 2020 and 2017 by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”.