OFAC Chief Counsel Joins Skadden

NEW YORK – April 30, 2012 – Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP announced today that Sean M. Thornton, chief counsel of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, is joining the firm's financial institutions regulation and enforcement group in the Washington, D.C. office, effective April 30.                Mr. Thornton has been OFAC's chief counsel since 2005, and he has been with the Treasury Department … [Read more...]