SEC names Eisenberg as divisional acting director

Washington - The Securities and Exchange Commission in early April named agency veteran Meyer Eisenberg to the post of acting director of the commission's Division of Investment Management.

Eisenberg will fill on an interim basis the void created by the recent departure of division director Paul Roye, who left the SEC for a job in the private sector.

Since 1998, Eisenberg has served as deputy general counsel for the commission. He previously served at the SEC from 1959 to 1970. During that period, he was the executive assistant to the commission's then-chairman, Manuel F. Cohen.

Current Chairman William Donaldson said in a statement, "Mike is a distinguished member of the securities bar and his history of service to the commission and to the investing public is unmatched."

The SEC is actively seeking a full-time replacement for Roye.

Separately, the commission appointed Scott Friestad to the post of associate director of the commission's Division of Enforcement.

In that role, Friestad, 42, will serve as a senior official in the division and assist in planning and directing the commission's investigations and other enforcement efforts. He will report to division director Stephen Cutler.

Friestad joined the regulator in 1995 as a staff attorney, and his efforts have contributed to SEC enforcement actions involving Regulation FD, public company accounting and disclosure, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, insider trading, and broker/dealer regulation.

Friestad has also served as a special assistant in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and was a litigator at the New York law firm of Dewey Ballantine.

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