Daniel Gallagher is leaving his Securities and Exchange Commission position for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. He will officially join the firm at the end of the month as a partner. Gallagher is one of a string of SEC defections in the recent past. The most recent was the announcement that an associate director of enforcement, Fredric Firestone, was leaving his position for McDermott Will & Emery. George Curtis left his position as a special advisor to the director of the division of enforcement rejoined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

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