Lona Nallengara, chief of staff for former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Jo White, has rejoined Shearman & Sterling's capital markets and corporate governance practices in New York.
Nallengara, who served as White's chief of staff from 2013 to 2015, was White's top advisor on all issues, including policy development, rulemaking, strategy and management.
He led the rulemaking and implementation efforts related to all mandates under the Dodd-Frank and Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Acts and directed the SEC's asset management, market structure, public company disclosure effectiveness and private offering reform programs.
Before leaving Shearman & Sterling in 2011 to serve as the SEC's deputy director of the division of corporate finance and later as its acting director, Nallengara practiced at Shearman & Sterling as an associate and then a partner for 13 years.