Marie-Louise (Malou) Huth is a special counsel in S&C’s Investment Management and Financial Services Groups. Her practice focuses on advising investment advisers, private funds, registered funds, broker-dealers, exchanges, clearing agencies, and other financial institutions on a broad range of complex regulatory, compliance, legislative, and enforcement matters. She has a deep understanding of the Investment Company Act of 1940, Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Administrative Procedure Act, and her vast experience in the investment management and trading and markets spaces provides a unique insight into current issues in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rulemaking, examination, and enforcement contexts.
Malou rejoined the Firm in 2023 after having served over 10 years at the SEC in a number of senior leadership positions, most recently as an Associate General Counsel of Legal Policy where she led an office providing legal advice and policy analysis to the Commission, individual Commissioners, and the Commission’s divisions and offices on regulatory recommendations concerning investment advisers, funds, broker-dealers, exchanges, clearing agencies, and other registered entities. Malou routinely advised on issues surrounding rulemakings, including on the implementation of Regulation Best Interest, the Fiduciary Duty Interpretation, and the Investment Adviser Marketing Rule, among numerous other rulemaking proposals issued by the SEC in recent years, including on the Private Fund Advisers, the Use of Predictive Data Analytics by Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers, Treasury Clearing, Regulation Best Ex, Outsourcing by Investment Advisers, Enhanced Disclosures about ESG, and Open-end Fund Liquidity and Swing Pricing proposals, among others. She also worked with the Divisions of Enforcement and Examination on novel issues raised during enforcement investigations and examinations, including interpretations of the securities laws and the application of the securities laws to new technologies, such as blockchain and digital assets.
She also previously served as Chief Counsel to the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (“DERA”) and led the team that provided legal advisory services to the Chief Economist, DERA staff, and other Commission divisions and offices on a wide range of legal issues relating to rulemakings, legislative affairs and Congressional studies. Prior to her roles in DERA and the Office of General Counsel, Malou worked in the Division of Trading and Markets, including serving two years as counsel to the Director of Trading & Markets, where she advised on rulemaking, enforcement actions, examinations, and rule filings by self-regulatory organizations.
Prior to her government service, Malou was an associate in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Washington DC office, where she focused on complex litigation and investigations. She also served as a law clerk to Judge Timothy Savage of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Speaking Engagements
- Co-Chair, “Investment Management 2025: Current Issues & Trends,” PLI (July 2025)
- Panelist, “SEC’s New Private Fund Adviser Rules: Overview, Implementation, and Implications of Pending Litigation,” D.C. Bar (2024)
