Hedge fund sponsor Chatham Asset Management, majority owner of the scandal-embroiled National Enquirer tabloid, has hired New York-based McGuireWoods partner and former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission senior counsel Daniel Goldfried as its general counsel.

Goldfried will be Chatham's sole in-house lawyer, according to Bloomberg News, which first reported the move, citing a private company memo. Corporate Counsel independently confirmed Goldfried's hiring with a source close to the situation.

Goldfried joined McGuireWoods in 2017 as a partner in the firm's government and white-collar investigations and broker-dealer practice groups. The role routinely requires his involvement in “internal investigations of whistleblower allegations and other potential rule, policy or statutory violations, on behalf of broker-dealers, banks, and other companies,” according to his LinkedIn profile.