Global payments company, MasterCard Worldwide, has named Michael McEneney deputy general counsel. In this new role, he will lead the global public policy, regulatory advocacy, litigation, and the product and advisors legal teams. He will report to MasterCard's General Counsel, Noah Hanft, and will split his time between MasterCard's offices in Purchase, N.Y., and Washington, D.C.

Since 1999, McEneney was a partner at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., where he spent more than a decade advising global payment system and banking clients, including MasterCard, on the full range of legal issues affecting the financial services industry. His areas of expertise include privacy, data protection, e-Commerce, anti-money laundering, debit and credit regulation and consumer bankruptcy issues.

Prior to joining Sidley Austin, McEneney was a partner at Morrison & Foerster, where he represented major payment card systems clients on federal legislative and regulatory policy matters and counseled financial institutions on federal regulations.