Nicholas Grippo announced Thursday evening on social media that he had risen to the position of chief litigation counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Stephen E. Frank, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in the Am Law 100 firm’s New York and Boston offices, served for nearly 17 years as a federal prosecutor, including as chief of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. He recalled Grippo as a “smart colleague with a lot of common sense.”