Sher Tremonte Adds Former SEC Enforcement Official Tami Stark as Partner to Enhance Firm’s SEC Enforcement Practice
New York, NY – May 5, 2026 – Sher Tremonte LLP announced today that Tami Stark has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office, further strengthening the firm’s capabilities in securities litigation, regulatory enforcement matters, and complex white collar investigations.
Stark focuses her practice on representing companies and individuals facing white collar criminal and regulatory investigations, with a particular emphasis on matters involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She spent more than eight years in the SEC’s Enforcement Division, where she served as an Assistant Regional Director leading investigations and enforcement actions.
“Tami is exactly the kind of thoughtful, sophisticated former regulator our clients need when the SEC and other agencies are pushing aggressively on enforcement,” said founding partner Michael Tremonte. “Her first-chair experience leading SEC investigations, combined with her track record obtaining efficient, favorable outcomes for clients in high‑stakes government-facing matters, makes her an ideal fit for our growing securities and regulatory defense practice.”
Ranked as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA, Stark has been praised by clients as “responsive, methodical and deeply knowledgeable” and “someone you can really trust,” as well as “a strong partner to her clients with an insightful and informed perspective that not only helps cut through the heart of matters but also guides clients effectively through nuanced situations.” She regularly advises public companies, financial services firms, private equity and hedge funds, senior executives, and boards in investigations involving financial and accounting fraud, AI and cybersecurity disclosures, insider trading, broker dealer and investment adviser misconduct, executive compensation and perks, market manipulation, digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, and the FCPA.
Before joining Sher Tremonte, Stark was a partner at an international Am Law 20 firm, where she counseled clients through major SEC, DOJ, FINRA, and multi-state regulatory investigations. Earlier in her career, she practiced at a white collar defense boutique and managed monitorships and auditorships imposed in connection with high-profile investigations by New York state and city regulators and the New York Attorney General’s Office. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Carol B. Amon of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Stark’s arrival builds on Sher Tremonte’s continued investment in its white collar and investigations platform, including the addition last year of former DOJ unit chief Brian Kidd as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and, later in the year, prominent criminal defense lawyer and former lead federal defender Deirdre von Dornum as a partner in New York. Kidd previously served as Chief of the Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit in the DOJ’s Criminal Division, where he supervised a team of roughly 40 federal prosecutors and oversaw major fraud cases involving complex securities, commodities, cryptocurrency, and other corporate fraud matters. The firm said von Dornum’s arrival expanded its white collar, indigent defense, civil rights, and pro bono practices.
“Over the past several years, Sher Tremonte has built an exceptional team of former prosecutors and regulators handling bet‑the‑company criminal and regulatory matters,” Stark said. “I am excited to join this distinguished group and to help further expand the firm’s SEC enforcement and securities regulatory practice.”
Sher Tremonte represents businesses, executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, and other individuals in criminal investigations and prosecutions, as well as in regulatory enforcement proceedings before the SEC, DOJ, FINRA, CFTC, IRS, and other federal and state authorities. The firm is widely recognized as a premier litigation boutique for white collar crime and government investigations matters.