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A D.C. federal judge opted Wednesday to admonish Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and former firm partner Alex Oh in connection with the Exxon human rights case that appears to have led Oh to resign prematurely from her new post as enforcement head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Alex Oh's unexpected resignation from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's top enforcement job comes as a shock, but is unlikely to dissuade Chairman Gary Gensler from looking to BigLaw for a replacement, securities attorneys told Law360.
Willkie Farr raids Mayer Brown for quartet of insurance partners in California and New York
29 April 2021
Willkie Farr raids Mayer Brown for quartet of insurance partners in California and New York
Team is led by Mayer Brown s former co-leader of its US insurance regulatory group Kara Baysinger
Shutterstock Willkie Farr & Gallagher has hired a team of four insurance partners from Mayer Brown to boost its insurance transactional and regulatory practice in California and New York. The team includes Mayer Brown’s former co-leader of its US insurance regulatory and enforcement group Kara Baysinger, who will be based in Willkie’s San Francisco office and co-chair the firm’s insurance regulatory group alongside Allison Tam in New York. Baysinger is joined by Stephanie Duchene, Matthew Gaul and David Heales. Duchene will split her time between the firm’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices, while Gual and Heales will both be based in New York.
SEC enforcement chief Alex Oh resigns just days after taking job
Melissa Hodgman, who previously was serving as acting director of the enforcement unit, will return to that role, the SEC said.
April 28, 2021 2 MINS
Alex Oh, who was named head of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s vaunted enforcement division last week, abruptly resigned, an early setback for Gary Gensler’s tenure running the Wall Street regulator.
The surprise move, announced Wednesday in an SEC statement, means Gensler won’t have his preferred pick leading what’s arguably the agency’s most important division. Melissa Hodgman, who was previously serving as acting director of the enforcement unit, will return to that role, the SEC said.