Erik Gerding, who led the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s corporate finance division in the Biden administration, is joining Freshfields as a partner at the firm.
Gerding will work in Freshfields’ Silicon Valley office, the firm announced on Friday. He joins Freshfields less than two months after the firm hired Melissa Hodgman, the former associate director of the SEC’s enforcement division, joined the firm as a litigation partner in Washington.
Gerding, a former Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton associate, first joined the SEC in October 2021 as a deputy director of its corporate finance division where he led legal and ...
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