The SEC announced this week that David J. Gottesman has been named Deputy Chief Litigation Counsel in the Division of Enforcement. Gottesman joined the SEC in 2004 and was first promoted to a supervisory role in the trial unit in 2011.

As Deputy Chief Litigation counsel, Gottesman will work directly under Matthew C. Solomon, Chief Litigation Counsel, who has held that position since October 2013. In announcing Gottesman's promotion, Solomon stated that Gottesman's "trial acumen, together with his subject matter expertise and strong management experience, will be critical assets to our national litigation program.”

Gottesman led the SEC's jury trial against former executives of Hayes-Lemmerz for alleged accounting fraud. Gottesman also handled the financial crisis case against two former executives of Charles Schwab & Co. for misleading statements and omissions in marketing the Schwab YieldPlus Fund, and was a member of the team that obtained admissions of liability as part of an $18 million settlement with hedge fund adviser Philip A. Falcone and Harbinger Capital Partners.

Gotesman previously served as a trial attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1991 to 2004.