Christopher O’Neill is an accomplished legal executive with nearly two decades of experience at top-tier financial institutions and regulatory bodies. He brings deep expertise in securities law, regulatory enforcement, and litigation risk management. Most recently, Christopher served as Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he led high-stakes regulatory investigations and advised on compliance matters across a wide range of financial products and trading platforms.
Throughout his tenure at JPMorgan, Christopher collaborated with senior leaders, legal teams, and compliance units to respond to complex inquiries from the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FINRA, OFAC, and other agencies. He oversaw cross-functional teams, managed external counsel, and played a key role in preparing witnesses, drafting critical regulatory submissions, and negotiating settlements. His leadership covered regulatory issues from sanctions and AML compliance to swap and equity trading, short interest reporting, and supervisory controls.
Prior to JPMorgan, Christopher held key roles at Barclays Capital and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), where he built a reputation for delivering results in investigations involving insider trading, subprime securitizations, private placements, and systemic compliance failures. As Principal Counsel at FINRA, he led some of the agency’s most complex enforcement actions, including multimillion-dollar settlements involving mortgage-backed securities and private offerings.
Christopher earned a J.D., cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law and a B.S. in Finance from Villanova University. He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.
