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Carmen Lawrence Joins King & Spalding in New York
SEC enforcement lawyer Carmen Lawrence joins King & Spalding.
SAC Compliance Head Quits After Insider Cases Hit Firm – Bloomberg
SAC Capital Advisors LP, the hedge-fund manager that U.S. prosecutors have called a “veritable magnet for market cheaters,” said Chief Compliance Officer Steve Kessler is stepping down at the end of the month after nine years at the firm. via SAC Compliance Head Quits After Insider Cases Hit Firm – Bloomberg.
SEC’s Canellos Re-Joining Milbank, Tweed as Global Head of Litigation – Compliance Week
On January 3, 2014, the SEC announced that George S. Canellos, co-director of its Enforcement Division, would be leaving the agency that month but that he had “not yet made future career plans.” Today, Canellos’ post-government plans were revealed, as law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy announced that Canellos will be joining the firm in mid-March as Global Head [...]
DOJ Prosecutor Patrick Stokes Selected to Head FCPA Unit – Compliance Week
Patrick Stokes, previously the co-head of the Securities and Financial Fraud unit of the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section, has been named as the new Chief of the DOJ’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit. Stokes succeeds Chuck Duross, who left the DOJ on January 24 and will be joining the Washington, D.C. office of law firm Morrison [...]
Kevin Harnisch Joins Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C.
Kevin Harnisch has joined law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. The firm announced yesterday that Harnisch will join its Securities Litigation & Enforcement practice. Harnisch joins Steptoe from law firm Fried Frank. Previously, Harnisch served as a branch chief in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. via [...]
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur Joins King & Spalding — King & Spalding Press Release
King & Spalding today announced a further expansion of its special matters and government investigations practice with the addition of Robert K. Hur as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office, just one week after SEC enforcement and white-collar criminal defense lawyers Dixie L. Johnson and William F. Johnson’s arrival at the firm. Hur rejoins [...]
Former Chief of S.E.C. to Shift Consulting Job – NYTimes.com
Just nine months after joining the Promontory Financial Group, a consulting firm that straddles the worlds of Wall Street and Washington, [Mary] Schapiro is planning to leave her full-time role there. Ms. Schapiro, a managing director and chairwoman of the governance and markets practice at Promontory, will instead become the vice chairwoman of the firm’s [...]
A Former Regulator Returns to Private Practice – NYTimes.com
Before David Meister was butting heads with Wall Street’s top defense lawyers, he was one of them. And now, after spending nearly three years as a federal regulator, Mr. Meister is returning to his defense lawyer past. Mr. Meister, who left Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to run the enforcement unit of the Commodity Futures [...]
Top Government FCPA Prosecutor Charles Duross To Join Morrison & Foerster from DOJ — Morrison Foerster Press Release
Morrison & Foerster announced today that Charles Duross will join the firm’s Litigation Department as a partner and will head its global anti-corruption practice, resident in the Washington, D.C. office, effective February 17, 2014. As the head of DOJ’s FCPA Unit, Mr. Duross was in charge of all of DOJ’s FCPA investigations, prosecutions and resolutions [...]
Dixie Johnson and Bill Johnson Join King & Spalding
SEC enforcement and white collar lawyers Dixie Johnson and Bill Johnson join King & Spalding.