SEC taps Gibson Dunn attorney to be new enforcement director
The seal of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seen at their headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has tapped David Woodcock, a Gibson Dunn lawyer and former agency official, to be its next enforcement director after the regulator’s top cop abruptly quit last month. Woodcock, a partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Dallas, Texas, will join the SEC to lead the more than 1,000-person division beginning May 4, the SEC said in a statement. He will replace Margaret Ryan, who resigned just six months into the job after clashing with the agency’s leaders over the direction of the enforcement program, Reuters previously reported. Reuters was first to report Woodcock’s appointment. Woodcock is a longtime securities lawyer who led the SEC’s Fort Worth, Texas, regional office from 2011 to 2015, where he helped create a task force aimed at rooting out accounting and financial reporting misconduct, the SEC said. Woodcock is well-known to SEC staff both in his work at the SEC and …
