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February 12, 2003

Yesterday, William Donaldson was confirmed

Yesterday, William Donaldson was confirmed by the Senate Banking Committee as next chair of the SEC – full Senate approval is expected shortly – and Mr. Donaldson should be in office by next tuesday…

From the Division of Corporation Finance, Dennis Garris will be leaving as head of the Office of Mergers & Acquisitions to join Alston & Bird – Associate Director Bill Tolbert is also leaving to go back to Ohio.

On GreatGovernance.com, we have posted a lengthy annotated corporate governance guidelines – graciously donated by Cynthia Krus of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan.