Securities Docket

Lorin L. Reisner will join the SEC’s Division of Enforcement as Deputy Director. The SEC announced yesterday that Reisner, a former federal prosecutor and current litigation partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, will join the agency in early August.
Reisner has been a litigation partner at Debevoise since 1996. He previously served as an Assistant United [...]

Kenneth B. Julian has joined law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips as a partner in its Orange County office. The firm announced yesterday that Julian has joined its Litigation and Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense practices. Prior to joining Manatt, Julian was a federal prosecutor for more than 11 years, serving as an [...]

George Schieren has joined law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as a partner in its New York office.  The firm announced today that Schieren has joined its securities litigation and regulatory enforcement practice. Schieren joins Gibson Dunn from Clifford Chance.
Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Schieren served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of [...]

We thought it was interesting that golfer Vijay Singh defiantly continued to sport his Stanford Financial hat, but his headwear choices are nothing compared to the latest news that Singh was one of just three people who offered to sign for a portion of Allen Stanford’s’s bail.  CNBC reports that Singh agreed to be responsible [...]

Bruce M. Bettigole has joined law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office.  The firm announced today that Bettigole has joined its Litigation Practice Group.
Bettigole focuses his practice on securities enforcement and regulatory matters, including cases involving allegations of accounting fraud, stock manipulation, and insider trading.
Prior to joining Sutherland, [...]

Douglas Thompson has joined law firm Bryan Cave as a partner in its Santa Monica office. The firm announced last week that Thompson has joined its Commercial Litigation, Class & Derivative Actions and Financial Institutions Client Service Groups.
Previously, Thompson was the Managing Director and General Counsel, Litigation of Countrywide Financial Corporation, where he headed [...]

Mark Kirsch, Joel Cohen and Christopher Joralemon have joined law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as partners in its New York office. All three were previously with Clifford Chance, where Kirsch (pictured) served as the Global Chair of the Litigation Practice and a member of its Global Management Committee, and Cohen served as [...]

Steven Engel has joined Dechert as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office.  The firm announced today that Engel has joined its white collar and securities litigation group.
Engel most recently served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General with the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel in Washington, D.C. Engel also previously served as a law clerk to [...]

Steven O. Kramer has joined law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in its the Los Angeles/Downtown office. The firm announced today that Kramer has joined its Business Trial practice group. Kramer most recently practiced at Mayer Brown in Los Angeles, and focuses his practice on civil litigation, primarily [...]

Meredith E. Kotler has joined law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton as a partner in the firm’s New York office.  The firm announced yesterday that Kotler has joined its litigation and arbitration practice, where she will advise on commercial, securities and corporate governance litigation, as well as securities enforcement and appellate matters.
From 1998 to [...]