Former Securities and Exchange Commissioner Annette Nazareth has joined the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office.

As previously reported by Compliance Week, Nazareth announced in October 2007 her intention to retire from the SEC to return to the private sector.

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