Ropes & Gray attorney to head SEC’s New York office

By Anne Sherry, J.D.The SEC has named Marc Berger as director of the New York Regional Office. Berger, a former federal prosecutor who currently co-leads Ropes & Gray’s global securities and futures enforcement practice, will join the agency in January 2018. He is filling the vacancy created by the departure of Andrew Calamari, who announced his own imminent move to Finn Dixon & Herling.The New York office oversees more than 4,000 investment banks, investment advisers, broker-dealers, mutual funds, and hedge funds. Berger will lead a staff of nearly 400 professionals involved in investigating and prosecuting enforcement actions and conducting compliance inspections. Before joining Ropes & Gray, he spent 12 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York and led the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force. In a recent white paper published in Securities Regulation Daily, Berger analyzed a new Argentine law that subjects companies to…

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