CW Staff

Pharmaceutical company Astellas announced the promotion of Linda Friedman as executive vice president, general counsel, with responsibility for the company’s legal operations worldwide, effective April 1.

Toys “R” Us, a toy and baby products retail company, has hired Cornell Boggs as executive vice president and general counsel, effective Feb. 15. He will report directly to Chairman and CEO Dave Brandon.

BillingTree, a payment technology and services provider, has appointed Barton Bright as general counsel and chief compliance officer.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, a post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has appointed Ann Shuman as general counsel, effective Feb. 1. She assumes the role from Larry Thompson, who is stepping down to serve full-time as vice chairman of DTCC.

Andrew Ceresney, who served from April 2013 to December 2016 as the Director of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, will return to the law firm Debevoise as co-chair of the litigation department, where he will practice primarily in the White Collar & Regulatory Defense Group.

The U.S. law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson has named Kenneth Yeadon, Previously an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and a senior attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, as a partner in the Chicago office.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation; Goldman Sachs; CIT Group; Klingenstein Fields Wealth Advisors; and True Health Diagnostics all have new compliance officers. In other news, TBC Bank Group has a new chief risk officer. Check out the CW Grapevine for the latest personnel moves.

Goldman Sachs Group has appointed Sarah Smith as global head of compliance. She will assume the role from Alan Cohen, who is stepping down.

TBC Bank Group, together with its subsidiary JSC TBC Bank, has appointed David Chkonia to the management board of TBC Bank as chief risk officer and deputy CEO with immediate effect.