About Michelle Mount

Michelle Mount is a versatile corporate counsel who partners with executive teams to drive strategic growth. Drawing on a robust foundation in capital markets, public M&A and SEC compliance, she delivers practical, cross-functional legal guidance.

Translating complex regulatory and transactional challenges into strategic, business-driven solutions

Michelle Mount advises public and private companies, registered and private funds, investment firms, and underwriters on a broad spectrum of complex corporate and transactional matters. She guides clients through their efforts to raise capital and navigate intricate regulatory challenges. Her practice focuses on capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings with notable experience across the ESG, digital technology, and real estate sectors, special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) transactions, public mergers and acquisitions, and private investments in public equity (PIPEs).

Michelle’s regulatory knowledge, combined with her transactional experience, helps clients successfully execute complex capital raises. Prior to her current role, she was an associate in the US Regulatory, Funds and Investment Management practice of a major international law firm, where she focused on representing underwriters in closed-end funds (CEFs) and other public and private entities.

In addition to her deal work, Michelle serves as a subject matter expert on Securities Exchange Act of 1934 compliance, corporate governance and digital asset transactions. She brings a deep, practical understanding of the financial markets and corporate governance choices from her time working for two self-regulating organizations (SROs) prior to law school. She further honed her regulatory insight through two consecutive externships at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Enforcement Division and Office of Market Supervision. This experience gives her a unique perspective on the legal theories and processes regulators apply to securities rules, particularly concerning insider trading and digital assets.

While in law school, Michelle demonstrated a strong early commitment to the field, publishing five times across two journals and earning the SEC Alumni's Pollak Award for her paper on ethical issues in securities law.

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  • Georgetown University Law Center, JD, cum laude
  • Boston University, BS
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  • Missouri
  • Texas
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  • JAAGO Foundation Inc.