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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInGary Gensler confirmed to lead the SEC, Wall Street’s top regulator
Gary Gensler will lead the Securities and Exchange Commission after the Senate voted 53-45 on Wednesday to confirm his nomination to the nation’s top financial regulator. Gensler, chosen for the role by President Joe Biden, will now play a key part in enforcing and drafting the rules that govern Wall Street, investors and a wide […]
Bernie Madoff dies: Mastermind of the nation’s biggest investment fraud was 82
Bernard Madoff, mastermind of the biggest investment fraud in U.S. history, ripping off tens of thousands of clients of as much as $65 billion, died early Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. He was 82. Madoff died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, apparently from natural causes, the AP reported, citing an unidentified […]
Chief of SEC Whistleblower Office, Jane Norberg, Leaving Agency This Month – WSJ
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower office is changing leadership amid a record-setting year for the regulator’s cash-for-tips program. Jane Norberg, chief of the SEC’s whistleblower office who helped lead the unit from its infancy, will leave the agency this month after nine years with the unit, the SEC said Thursday. Emily Pasquinelli, the whistleblower […]
Robert Hur, Former U.S. Attorney for District of Maryland, Joins Gibson Dunn’s D.C. Office
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Hur has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Hur most recently served as the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland. At Gibson Dunn, he will focus on crisis management and white collar defense and investigations. Hur, who also served in the Justice […]
Credit Suisse Takes $4.7 Billion Hit on Archegos Meltdown – WSJ
Credit Suisse Group AG reported a $4.7 billion hit from the meltdown of Archegos Capital Management, slashed its dividend and said its investment banking and risk chiefs would leave the bank. The Swiss lender has been the hardest hit by the collapse late last month of Archegos, a U.S. family investment firm, suffering a major […]
Citi Hires FinCEN’s Blanco as Financial Crimes Compliance Chief – BNN Bloomberg
Citigroup Inc. hired Ken Blanco, the director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, as its chief compliance officer of its newly created financial crimes unit. Blanco worked on combating financial crimes and enforcing regulations on money laundering and terrorism financing at FinCEN, a bureau in the Department of Treasury. Before that, he spent 29 years […]
Citadel Securities Hires Ex-CFTC Chairman Tarbert as Legal Chief – Bloomberg
Citadel Securities hired Heath Tarbert, the former chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as its chief legal officer. Tarbert led the nation’s main derivatives regulator from 2019 until January, when he became a commissioner. He previously served as a senior official in the Treasury Department, and before that led the bank-regulatory practice at […]
Greenberg Traurig Nabs Schulte Roth White Collar Co-Chair
Greenberg Traurig bolstered its criminal defense ranks with the addition of Adam Hoffinger, the co-chair of the white collar defense and government investigations group at Schulte Roth & Zabel and a former federal prosecutor. Source: Greenberg Traurig Nabs Schulte Roth White Collar Co-Chair (1)
Coinbase Hires Ex-SEC Director to Run Capital Markets Division – WSJ
Coinbase named Brett Redfearn, most recently the director of the SEC’s division of trading and markets, to run its capital-markets group, which includes its exchange operations and a brokerage and custody business. Mr. Redfearn, who left the SEC in December, is the second high-ranking former SEC official this week to take a role with a […]
Crowell & Moring to Combine with Wall Street Firm Kibbe & Orbe
Crowell & Moring, which has set its sights on strategic expansion, is merging with New York-based boutique Kibbe & Orbe to expand offerings to clients in the financial services industry. As a part of the combination, 24 lawyers from Kibbe & Orbe, previously known as Richards Kibbe & Orbe, will join Crowell in its New […]