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  • Will Mary Jo White’s SEC Hang Whistle-Blowers Out to Dry?

    The Securities and Exchange Commission is certainly looking all spiffy and new these days.

  • Canellos And Ceresney Named Co-Chiefs of SEC Enforcement

    George Canellos and Andrew Ceresney have been named co-directors of enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency said today.

  • Ropes & Gray, Sidley, Cleary, Gibson Dunn:Business of Law

    Ropes & Gray LLP added four new corporate partners. Bracewell & Giuliani LLP lawyers Jonathan Gill and Robb Tretter join the firm in New York as partners in the private-equity practice, focusing on distressed investing. Mark Wesseldine, previously of Fried Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP will be joining the firm as a finance partner in London. Victoria Lloyd, a capital markets and mergers and acquisitions lawyer also from Fried Frank, is joining Ropes & Gray in its Hong Kong office.

  • SEC to Move Past Financial Crisis Cases Under Chairman White

    Mary Jo White, the first former prosecutor to serve as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has pledged to run a “bold and unrelenting” enforcement program at the agency charged with regulating Wall Street.

  • The SEC Let Steven Cohen Off Easy

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission gets a lot of well-deserved brickbats for settling cases with crooks and cheats without making them admit to breaking the law. The deals often show the agency to be gutless and weak. Other times they look plain stupid.

  • Khuzami Says He Will Step Down as SEC’s Top Enforcement Cop

    -- Robert Khuzami, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement chief who led the agency’s pursuit of financial crime after the credit crisis, said he would step down.

  • SEC Enforcement Chief Khuzami Said to Leave Agency Next Month

    Robert Khuzami, who led the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division’s pursuit of financial industry wrongdoing related to the subprime crisis, plans to step down as early as next month, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

  • Khuzami Says SEC ‘Very Focused’ on Policing High-Speed Traders

    Robert Khuzami, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement chief, said the agency is “very focused” on bringing cases against exchanges and traders when system or programming failures harm investors.

  • Rajaratnam Case Shows Outmanned, Outgunned SEC on a Roll

    One late afternoon in March 2007, Sanjay Wadhwa sat at his desk transfixed by the data on his computer screen. Wadhwa was then a low-level supervisor in the Wall Street office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigating a supposedly routine case of “cherry- picking.” The SEC had gotten a complaint that Rengan Rajaratnam, the founder of Sedna Capital Management LLC, a small hedge fund, was doling out a disproportionate share of his best trades to the beneficiaries of a “friends and family” account. It was Wadhwa’s job to figure out what was going on, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its April 23 issue.

  • Canellos Named Acting SEC Enforcement Chief as Khuzami Departs

    George Canellos, deputy director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division, has been named acting head of the unit that polices Wall Street, the agency said today.

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