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Insider Trading. Digital assets. On June 1, 2022, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (the "USAO") and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (the "FBI")...

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/PRNewswire/ -- Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Christopher D. Frey has joined the firm as a partner in the White Collar Defense &...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 22, 2021, Ms. Alex Oh was named the new Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Enforcement. Ms. Oh was most recently a partner in private practice where she served as co-chair of her law firm’s Anti-Corruption & FCPA Practice Group. Notably, she was previously an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, wher...

SEC names new enforcement chief Alex Oh was appointed director of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Ms. Oh was most recently a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and co-chair of its anti-corruption and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act practice group. Before that, she served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in the criminal division. During that tenure, she was on the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force a...

SEC Names New Head of Enforcement Alex Oh, who joins from law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, replaces Stephanie Avakian, who stepped down from the role in December after a four-year tenure under the Trump administration. The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed Alex Oh, previously a partner at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, as its new director of enforcement. She succeeds Melissa Hodgman, interim director since January, and Stephanie Ava...

By Aaron Nicodemus2021-04-22T17:38:00+01:00 New Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler has made his first key appointment: Alex Oh as director of the Division of Enforcement. Oh, named to the post Thursday, was most recently a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where she was co-chair of the law firm’s Anti-Corruption & Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) practice group. She previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Criminal Division of the ...

Alex Oh Named SEC Director Of Enforcement Date 22/04/2021 The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Alex Oh has been appointed Director of the Division of Enforcement. Oh was most recently a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and co-chair of the law firm’s Anti-Corruption & FCPA Practice Group. She was previously an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, where she was a me...

Ropes & Gray Bolsters Enforcement and Antitrust Teams Brian Blais of the Southern District of New York and Samer Musallam of the DOJs Antitrust Division Join the Firm in New York and D.C. News provided by Share this article NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Brian Blais, co-chief of the General Crimes Unit at the United States Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, and Samer Musallam, a Senior Counsel in the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, have ...

SEC Acting Enforcement Director Marc P. Berger To Depart The Commission Date 12/01/2021 The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Marc P. Berger, Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement, will conclude his tenure at the agency this month. Mr. Berger joined the Commission as Director of the New York Regional Office in December 2017 and was named Deputy Director of the Division of Enforcement in August 2020. Under Mr. Bergers leadership, Enforcement staff pursued sign...