Jason Burt focuses his practice on complex securities matters. Prior to entering private practice, he served for more than two decades at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, where he most recently held the role of Deputy Director of Enforcement for the Specialized Units. In that position, he oversaw the Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management, Market Abuse, Cyber and Emerging Technologies, Complex Financial Instruments, and Public Finance Abuse Units, along with the Office of the Whistleblower, supervising more than 350 investigations and litigations involving market manipulation, insider trading, crypto assets, cybersecurity, complex financial products, and disclosure violations.

Before becoming Deputy Director, Mr. Burt served as Director of the SEC’s Denver Regional Office, where he led both Enforcement and Examination programs and managed more than 125 attorneys, examiners, and staff. In that role, he supervised over 150 annual examinations and hundreds of enforcement investigations and litigations in SEC priority areas, including public company disclosure, accounting and audit failures, broker-dealer and investment adviser practices, and emerging technology issues. He previously served as Associate Director of Enforcement in Denver and, earlier in his career, as Assistant Director in both the Asset Management Unit and the Market Abuse Unit, making him the only SEC official to have supervised both units. 

Earlier in his SEC tenure, Mr. Burt worked as an investigative attorney and senior counsel in the Market Abuse Unit, where he investigated and litigated cases involving insider trading, market structure, and manipulation schemes, and as an attorney adviser in the Office of Compliance Inspections & Examinations (now the Division of Examinations), advising staff on legal issues affecting broker-dealers and investment advisers. Over the course of his government service, he supervised or litigated numerous significant enforcement matters, including actions involving false and misleading disclosures, fiduciary duty breaches by private fund advisers, whistleblower protections, and failures in market access controls.

Mr. Burt also teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Law School.