The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Eric Komitee, a lawyer who most recently spent 10 years as general counsel at the Manhattan hedge fund Viking Global Investors, as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Komitee, 48, has experience in the Eastern District, where he worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office from 2000 to 2008. He handled cyber crime cases and eventually led the business and securities fraud section, according to the biography he submitted to the Senate.