Monday, April 01, 2013

Dimon's Girl: Mary Jo White Named New Securities Exchange Commission's Top Cop

New SEC Head Once Acted for Wall St Wonder Boy Dimon

by TRNN

Dimitri Lascaris: New director of SEC was a Wall St. defense attorney who will now regulate former clients. 

Dimitri Lascaris is a partner with the Canadian law firm of Siskinds where he heads the firms securities class actions group. Before joining Siskinds, he practiced securities law in the New York and Paris offices of a major Wall Street law firm. Last year, he was named by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada. He is currently prosecuting numerous securities class actions in Canada, including the Sino-Forest class action in which his clients just negotiated the largest auditor settlement in Canadian history – a $117 million settlement with the accounting firm, Ernst & Young. 


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