This publication brings more news around the moves and hires in the North American wealth management sector.

A US-based business and regulatory consultancy firm, MarketCounsel, has appointed David Mrazik as a managing director and managing partner of Hamburger Law Firm, an affiliated entity.

Most recently, Mrazik was the general counsel and a managing director of Focus Financial Partners, where he was responsible for overseeing and advising on the internal and external legal affairs of the company and its affiliates.

Mrazik started his career in law at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher as an associate in its corporate and financial services department.  While there, Mrazik represented numerous public and private clients in mergers, stock and asset sales, venture capital investments and other transactions, in addition to serving as an outside general counsel and regulatory resource.  He next joined the M&A and Private Equity Department of Vinson & Elkins, where he led numerous transactions and other client engagements covering a broad range of industries and subject matter. 

Last month, the firm hired managing director and general counsel, Ed Slezak (formerly of 1-800FLOWERS, Crumbs Bake Shop, Aéropostale, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft).  Before that, it appointed Andrew Greenstein (formerly of Knight Capital Group) and Mark Simmelkjaer (formerly of Akin Gump).  Andrew Wels (formerly of Bloomberg, Cantor Fitzgerald, TD, JP Morgan, FINRA, and the SEC) and Richard Chen (formerly of Hedge Fund Law Report, Arnold and Porter, Schulte Roth, and K&L Gates) added to the firm’s regulation and compliance resources.