The SEC announced today that Mark Schonfeld, the Director of its New York Regional Office, will leave the agency at the end of September to become a partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. At Gibson, Dunn, Schonfeld will be co-head of the Securities Enforcement Defense practice and a member of the White Collar Defense, Investigations and Crisis Management practices.
The SEC’s announcement confirms the report of Schonfeld’s departure in yesterday’s WSJ, discussed here.
