Ms. Hoene is a recognized securities and investment management attorney with diverse experience in the financial services industry, and particular expertise with the Investment Company and Investment Advisers Acts of 1940. She works with fund sponsors, investment advisers, broker-dealers, commodity trading advisors, ETFs, registered and private funds, banks, insurance companies and the independent directors of investment companies.

She has held senior positions with several financial service institutions, including acting as Independent Fund Chief Compliance Officer at Bank of America, where she was responsible for establishing and defining the fund compliance program for mutual fund families aggregating more than $200 billion in assets, following the bank’s merger with FleetBoston Financial Corp.

Ms. Hoene also served as the first Deputy Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management, managing the disclosure, chief counsel, investment adviser and EDGAR pilot programs, and coordinating policy positions in legislative, self-regulatory and state matters, inspection and enforcement, and overall Division policy.

Practice Areas

Securities
Corporate
Financial Institutions Regulatory and Enforcement

Education

• B.A., 1970 Seattle University (English)
• J.D., 1975 University of Notre Dame School of Law

Bob Risoleo joined Sullivan & Cromwell’s New York office in 1985, was named partner in 1992 and has been resident in the Firm’s Washington, DC office since 2000. Mr. Risoleo is a member of the Firm’s Corporate and Finance Group with broad experience in U.S. and cross-border securities offerings, acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as project and structured finance. His corporate finance practice has included scores of domestic and international debt and equity offerings, including privatizations on three continents, as well as securitizations of receivables and other collateral, complex tax-based structures utilizing swaps and other derivatives, and the development of innovative preferred stock products and structured notes. Mr. Risoleo advises a number of foreign and domestic public companies with respect to a wide range of corporate and securities matters, including compliance with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act and related regulations. He is co-coordinator of the Firm’s corporate law practice and secretary of its opinion practice committee.  He is a regular speaker at continuing legal education programs on topics relating to new financial products, securities offerings and the federal securities laws, and is also a member of the Tri-Bar Committee on Legal Opinions.

Mr. Risoleo has been recognized as a leading lawyer in The Best Lawyers in America for both corporate and securities work (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) as well as IFLR1000 (2013, 2014, 2015). He has been ranked in Chambers Latin America and Chambers Global in various Capital Markets.