Tamara M. Brightwell is a corporate partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she counsels public company clients on a wide range of regulatory and corporate governance matters and provides expert securities law advice on complex capital markets transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, Tamara served as the Disclosure Review Program Director in the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In that role, she provided legal and policy guidance to the disclosure review program and oversaw the division’s reviews of transactional filings and periodic and current reports to monitor and enhance compliance with disclosure and accounting requirements, with specific oversight of industry offices for life sciences, industrial applications and services, energy and transportation, manufacturing, and trade and services. During her nearly two decades at the SEC and in the Division of Corporation Finance, Tamara served in numerous roles, including as Deputy Chief Counsel and Senior Advisor to the Chair. She has extensive rulemaking and policy experience, and in prior roles oversaw rulemaking efforts in a variety of areas, such as JOBS Act and Dodd-Frank Act implementation, cybersecurity, and shareholder proposals.

Ms. Brightwell received a B.S. in financial management, cum laude, from Clemson University, and a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.