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b'Norm Champ is a partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Norm is a member of the Investment Funds Group. Previously, Norm was the director of the Division of Investment Management at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).\\xa0 While at the SEC, Norm played a key role in the SEC\\u2019s completion of landmark reforms in 2014 to strengthen the $3 trillion money market fund industry, and led important structural and policy changes in the Division of Investment Management. He was the leader of interactions with the Financial Stability Oversight Council as the Council turned its attention to whether asset management firms are \\u201csystemically important.\\u201d He also worked on crisis management efforts at securities firms to protect customers of those firms. Norm also headed the creation of Guidance Updates and Senior Level Engagement initiatives, both of which were established to provide transparency to the industry about the priorities and goals of the SEC and to create a dialogue between policymakers and the senior management of asset management firms. Norm\\u2019s book,\\xa0Going Public, about his experiences at the SEC is available on Amazon. For more information on\\xa0Going Public,\\xa0visit goingpublicthebook.com\\n\\nPrior to becoming the Director of the Division of Investment Management, he was the Deputy Director of the SEC\\u2019s Office of Compliance, Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) and the Associate Regional Director for Examinations in the SEC\\u2019s New York Regional Office. In these capacities he supervised SEC examinations of investment advisors, investment companies, broker-dealers, national securities exchanges, credit rating agencies, clearing firms and other market participants.'