The international law firm of Crowell & Moring has announced the addition of Mark Egert as partner in the firm’s Corporate and Financial Services groups, as well as a member of the firm’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group. Egert will draw upon 15 years of in-house counsel experience to spearhead the firm’s regulatory and compliance practice serving broker-dealers, banks, asset management firms, and a variety of alternative investment clients.

Egert, who joins from his role as managing director and chief compliance officer of Cowen Group, is also the former vice president and associate general counsel of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and executive director and chief legal officer for the Wholesale North America Region of ABN AMRO Bank, N.V.

At Crowell & Moring, Egert will offer regulatory counsel to U.S. and foreign-based financial institutions on various matters, including advising on transactions, drafting and implementing policies and written supervisory procedures regarding, among other areas, insider trading, information barriers and conflicts of interest, research independence, anti-money laundering, surveillance and detecting and preventing fraud, and improving and auditing internal controls and compliance programs. Additionally, he will assist clients on CEO certifications and annual reviews, regulatory inquiries and investigations, and defending enforcement actions.

Before joining SIFMA, Egert began his legal career in private practice. He joined ABN AMRO in 1997 before being named Chief Legal Officer in 2001, became Legal & Compliance Director at RBC Capital Markets in 2003 and was appointed as Chief Compliance Officer at Cowen in 2005.