Ted McCutcheon

Chief Compliance Officer

Ted McCutcheon serves as WE’s outsourced chief compliance officer and brings specific expertise in the regulation of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-registered investment advisers (RIAs).  From 2013 to 2019, he served as WE’s first general counsel and chief compliance officer, and was a partner of the firm.

Ted is a seasoned securities lawyer and regulatory compliance advisor and has more than 25 years of experience as a criminal prosecutor, securities regulator, general counsel and chief compliance officer.  He has worked as an SEC enforcement investigator and trial attorney, in-house general counsel, and in-house chief compliance officer (CCO) for multiple multi-billion-dollar RIAs, including a multi-family office for ultra-high-net worth families (WE), a hedge fund and alternative assets manager, and a private credit fund manager. He has also served as CCO for a Commodity Futures Trading Commission- and National Futures Association-registered Commodity Pool Operator and Commodity Trading Advisor.  

Having worn a range of senior regulator, in-house legal, and compliance hats, Ted has a multi-faceted understanding of companies’, officers and directors’, and employees’ legal and regulatory compliance obligations, including a practical understanding of how compliance standards apply across a range of different business models, practices and processes. He has been responsible for designing, developing and managing all aspects of multiple RIA firms’ compliance programs.  

Ted regularly speaks and writes about regulatory compliance topics. He was an adjunct professor of SEC Enforcement Law at Florida International University College of Law, and has lectured on RIA fiduciary duty, financial fraud investigation, and other topics, at University of Miami law and business schools. Ted is also an experienced litigator and trial attorney. He started his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan and was Senior Trial Counsel at the SEC.  Ted is a graduate of Brown University and the Cornell Law School, and is an active member of the National Society of Compliance Professionals and the Investment Advisers Association.  He is admitted as an attorney in New York and Florida and is the founder of Securities Law Counsel, PLLC. 

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