In the firm’s first partner hire in three years, prominent white-collar defense boutique Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello is adding an attorney who spent the last 11 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Telemachus “Tim” Kasulis, 42, who was most recently co-chief of the office’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, will join Morvillo Abramowitz as a partner, effective January 2019.