Jerome Roche is a regulatory attorney whose practice focuses primarily on cross-border financial services matters. He has extensive experience counseling clients regarding the US federal securities laws, the Commodity Exchange Act, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dodd-Frank Act. According to Chambers USA 2011, Jerome is considered by clients to be "very quick on his feet." He also received a Martindale-Hubbell 2011 peer review rating of AV-Preeminent.
Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2007, Jerome was an Associate General Counsel of TIAA-CREF and Chief Legal Officer of the firm’s wholesale broker-dealer group (2005–2007). Earlier, he worked in the broker-dealer compliance and regulation group of another prominent law firm in Washington, DC (2000–2005) and, from 1997 to 2000, he served as Attorney-Adviser to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Market Regulation.