PIMCO Grows Compliance Ranks with Anti-Financial Crimes Recruit

Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC has hired Jennifer Opheim as senior counsel and global head of anti-financial crime compliance for the financial services firm.

Opheim, based out of Pimco’s headquarters in Newport Beach, Calif., joined the investment giant Sept. 14. She previously spent more than eight years at Schulte Roth & Zabel, where she was special counsel in New York.

Opheim specialized in commercial and bankruptcy litigation, as well as regulatory investigations. She joined Schulte Roth in 2012, having previously spent a half-dozen years as an associate at now-defunct Dewey & LeBoeuf.

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