Trends and Best Practices in SEC Reporting and Compliance for Banks

Craig T. Beazer is the Chief Corporate Securities and Governance Counsel for The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Mr. Beazer joined BNY Mellon in May 2012, and in his role has responsibility for '34 Act disclosure and filings, the proxy and corporate governance matters for the Corporation and its subsidiaries. 

Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Mr. Beazer was a Deputy General Counsel and Chief Disclosure Counsel at Bank of America Corporation, and had held leadership positions at General Electric Company, including serving as a Vice President and Corporate Secretary for General Electric Capital Corporation. Mr. Beazer started his career in private practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in New York. 

Mr. Beazer has a BA from Iona College and a JD from New York University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New York.

Alan L. Beller is a partner based in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Mr. Beller’s practice focuses on a wide variety of complex securities, corporate governance and corporate matters. Mr. Beller advises regularly senior officials of both U.S. and non-U.S. entities on these subjects, including in connection with SEC filings, corporate transactions and other corporate matters and public and private offerings of securities. Mr. Beller served as the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as Senior Counselor to the Commission from January 2002 until February 2006. During his four-year tenure, Mr. Beller led the Division in producing the most far-reaching corporate governance, financial disclosure and securities offering reforms in Commission history. Among his accomplishments were the implementation of the corporate provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the adoption of corporate governance standards for listed companies and the successful completion of comprehensive securities offering reforms.