US SEC TAPS GIBSON DUNN ATTORNEY TO BE NEW ENFORCEMENT DIRECTOR

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.

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