Shamoil T. Shipchandler

Shamoil T. Shipchandler is Chief Counsel for the Litigation, Enforcement & Internal Investigations Legal Group at Charles Schwab Corporation, where he oversees all matters involving litigation and arbitration, regulatory examination and enforcement, and internal investigations.

Before joining Schwab, Shamoil was a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Jones Day. Shamoil formerly served as a senior officer at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas.

As the Director of the SEC’s Fort Worth Regional Office, Shamoil led the enforcement and examination activities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas, a region that includes the second highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Shamoil supervised matters involving public company reporting; accounting and offering fraud; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; insider trading; cybersecurity; and financial institutions, registrants, and private funds.

As a Deputy Criminal Chief with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Shamoil served as the Attorney-in-Charge of the Plano Office and the district’s Asset Forfeiture Chief. During his tenure, Shamoil obtained convictions in the areas of securities fraud, tax evasion, bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, computer sabotage, and public corruption. Shamoil was awarded the Department of Justice’s Director’s Award for leading the prosecution of 40 defendants in the largest mortgage fraud scheme in Texas history and received the DHS Secretary’s Silver Medal for negotiating the largest corporate immigration fraud settlement in U.S. history.

As a government official and in the private sector, Shamoil has given more than 250 speeches and presentations about an extensive array of white collar, securities, cybersecurity, and ethics-related topics. He has taught courses to government officials in Malaysia, Bosnia, and Macedonia and served as a trial advocacy and ethics instructor at the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Advocacy Center. Shamoil is currently an adjunct faculty member of the ºìÌÒÓ°ÊÓ Dedman School of Law and the Master of Legal Studies Program, where he teaches courses about White Collar Crime and Data Privacy and Cybersecurity.

Shamoil was a partner with the Bracewell law firm prior to joining the Commission, and an associate with the law firm of Covington & Burling before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Shamoil graduated from Middlebury College and Cornell Law School and clerked for Judge Roger B. Andewelt of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.