Lev Dassin, the former Southern District acting U.S. attorney, yesterday joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton as a litigation partner. Mr. Dassin, 44, became acting U.S. attorney in January after Michael Garcia left to join Kirkland & Ellis. Before that, he was deputy U.S. attorney and chief of the criminal division. Though Mr. Dassin held the top title for only eight months, during that time the office saw some of its most high-profile fraud cases, including those of Bernard L. Madoff and Marc S. Dreier.
Mr. Dassin joins Cleary at a time when securities investigations are climbing in the wake of the near collapse of the financial markets last year. David Brodsky, a securities enforcement partner at the firm, said regulators “have been very active in securities enforcement, and I don’t really expect that to go away anytime soon.” Cleary is advising Bank of America as regulators investigate its merger last year with Merrill Lynch. Cleary is also advising clients in insider trading probes involving Galleon Group, though Mr. Brodsky declined to name them.
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