Kenyon Hall

KENYON HALL focuses her practice on representing individual and corporate clients in connection with investigations and enforcement proceedings brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and various state and federal regulators. Kenyon also represents clients in employment disputes in arbitral forums.

She currently serves as Boston co-chair for the firm’s Inclusion Committee. Kenyon was named a winner in the “New Leaders in the Law” category as a part of the New England Legal Awards 2024, which recognizes lawyers under 40 who have excelled in their practices, in client service, in service to bar associations, and in pro bono work or community service. She was also recognized as an “Up and Coming Lawyer” at Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s 2024 Excellence in the Law Awards.

Kenyon earned her law degree from Harvard Law School and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut, where she graduated summa cum laude. Kenyon is fluent in Spanish.

Representative matters include:

Investigations and Enforcement

• Corporate and individual clients in investigations and enforcement matters before the SEC, FINRA, and state securities regulators in matters in the financial services industry involving a range of regulatory and legal issues, including, among others, insider trading, disclosure matters, and sales practice matters.
• Large broker-dealer in a FINRA investigation involving sales practices and supervision of financial advisors.
• Multiple investment advisers in connection with SEC enforcement actions involving disclosure of conflicts of interest. 
• Hedge fund in an SEC investigation of potential insider trading. 
• Various financial services firms in connection with off-channel communications matters. 
• Fortune 500 public company in an SEC investigation of disclosure issues.
• Prominent broker-dealer in an SEC investigation involving municipal bond trading activity.

Arbitration Proceedings

• Financial services firm in several FINRA employment arbitrations, in each obtaining a dismissal of all claims after hearing.
• Financial services firm in a JAMS employment arbitration, obtaining a dismissal of all claims after hearing.

• Boston Co-Chair, Sidley’s Inclusion Committee
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Member, City Year Greater Boston Seven Generations Board