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Walker, RICHARD was born on April 6, 1950 in Tryon, North Carolina, United States.
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Walker, RICHARD was born on April 6, 1950 in Tryon, North Carolina, United States.
University of South Carolina (Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, 1979). University of North Carolina (Juris Doctor, 1987).
He is general counsel of corporate and investment banking at Deutsche Bank and former director of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (Securities and Exchange Commission), Division of Enforcement, where he worked for ten years. Before working at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Walker was a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He received his Juris Doctor cum laude from Temple Law School and was editor-in-chief of the Temple Law Quarterly.
Walker"s first job after law school was as a law clerk to Chief Judge Collins J. Seitz of the United States. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
In 1976, he began working at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft as an associate, becoming a partner in 1983. Walker worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission for ten years, first as regional director of the Securities and Exchange Commission"s northeast regional office from 1991 to 1996, then as general counsel from 1996 to 1998, when he became the director of enforcement.
He was involved with financial fraud cases brought against West.R. Grace, Livent, Cendant, Microstrategy, Sunbeam Products, Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He also established the Securities and Exchange Commission"s internet enforcement program
He orchestrated the Securities and Exchange Commission"s involvement in undercover sting operations including Operation Thorcon and Operation Uptick, which resulted in more than 100 people being charged with securities fraud.
While at the Securities and Exchange Commission, he worked under chairmen Arthur Levitt and Richard C. Breeden and was awarded for his work in a successful appeal in United States. v. O"Hagan, which upheld the misappropriation theory of insider trading. On October 1, 2001, just days before Deutsche Bank began listing its shares on the New York stock exchange, it announced that Walker would be joining the bank as general counsel of its corporate and investment banking division, the bank"s largest division.
In 2004, Khuzami, then working as a prosecutor in the United States. attorney"s office in Manhattan"s Southern District of New York, was hired by Walker to come to Deutsche Bank.
Walker later recommended Khuzami for the job of Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement director
North Carolina Bar Association. North Carolina State Bar. North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers.
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