The Securities and Exchange Commission has promoted Mark Cahn to general counsel in the SEC's Office of the General Counsel. He will assume his new role when David Becker steps down from the position later this month.

Since March 2009, Cahn has served as deputy general counsel for litigation and adjudication and has counseled the Commission on a wide variety of litigation, appellate and enforcement matters and played a key role in regulatory initiatives. From 1988 until joining the SEC staff, Cahn worked at the law firm of WilmerHale, where he was a partner in the firm's Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice.

Prior to joining WilmerHale, Cahn clerked for the Honorable John Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and for the Honorable Herbert J. Stern, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.