Finn Dixon & Herling LLP, a 55-member law firm in Stamford, has announced that Andrew M. Calamari, who served as director of the New York regional office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the past five years, will join the firm as a partner, effective Jan. 15.
“The breadth and depth of the firm”™s practice in both regulatory and white-collar matters provide the perfect fit for my background in securities enforcement and broker-dealer and investment adviser compliance,” Calamari said.
Calamari, a Fairfield resident, began his SEC tenure in 2000 as an enforcement attorney and rose through the ranks to ultimately lead the SEC”™s New York office of approximately 400 enforcement attorneys, accountants, investigators and compliance examiners. The New York office has responsibility for the largest concentration of SEC-registered financial institutions, including more than 4,000 investment banks, investment advisers, broker-dealers, mutual funds and hedge funds.