The Securities and Exchange Commission today has named David Fredrickson associate director and chief counsel in the agency's Division of Corporation Finance. He is expected to assume his new position in March.

Fredrickson has been assistant general counsel in the SEC's Office of General Counsel since 1998, where he is responsible for providing legal and policy advice to the Division of Corporation Finance. During his tenure, he has advised the division and the Commission on implementation of numerous rule-makings, including rules to implement the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, and the JOBS Act.

In his new role, Fredrickson will oversee the work of the division's Office of Chief Counsel and Office of Capital Markets Trends.  He will be responsible for the no-action, interpretive, and exemptive positions taken by the division on the securities registration process and exemptions from it.

He also will be responsible for deregistration, disclosures by corporate officers, directors and principal shareholders, executive compensation disclosure, CEO succession, and rules regarding proxy solicitation and shareholder proposals.

Before joining the Office of General Counsel in 1997, Fredrickson spent three years as an enforcement attorney in the SEC's San Francisco regional office. Prior to that, he spent eight years in private law practice, where he specialized in commercial and civil litigation.

Other News

In other news, the SEC has also named Paul Leder as director of its Office of International Affairs, which advises the Commission on cross-border enforcement and regulatory matters and coordinates the SEC's involvement with regulatory authorities outside the United States.

Leder joins the SEC from the law firm of Richards Kibbe & Orbe, where he was a partner. Previously, he spent more than a decade at the SEC, coming on board as trial attorney in 1987 in the Enforcement Division.

Soon after the Office of International Affairs was formed in 1989, Leder joined its initial leadership team, first serving as assistant director and later deputy director. From 1997 to 1999, he also served as senior adviser for international issues to Chairman Arthur Levitt.

During his tenure, Leder regularly represented the SEC internationally, including at meetings of the International Organization of Securities Commissions, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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