WilmerHale Nabs NY Fed Law Chief, Its Third Ex-Regulator in Year

Federal Reserve Bank of New York former legal chief Michael Held is joining WilmerHale, becoming the firm’s third hire of a past US regulator in a year.

Held will join WilmerHale’s securities and financial services practice in July after spending 24 years at the bank, most recently as general counsel.

He managed a legal department of more than 300 with a budget of $80 million and served as deputy general counsel of the Federal Open Market Committee, the 12-member body that sets monetary policy.

WilmerHale in October hired John Wells, former deputy enforcement director at the US Consumer Financial Protection ...