Nancy Lieberman, general counsel with Anchin Accountants & Advisors.

Former corporate and transactional lawyer Nancy Lieberman has joined accounting, tax and advisory firm Anchin, Block & Anchin as general counsel.

Lieberman started her new position in May, but Anchin announced her hiring Monday in a news release, which stated that the firm's new chief lawyer will “assist the firm with a variety of business and legal matters.” 

“It's exciting to join a firm that is passionate about delivering expert solutions to its clients while maintaining its focus on providing a warm and welcoming environment for its people,” Lieberman said Tuesday in a written statement.

“I look forward to applying my prior experience to provide practical legal advice that will enable Anchin to continue and grow as a top-tier firm, as well as to becoming involved in Anchin initiatives, such as Anchin's Women's Initiative Network,” she added. 

Lieberman succeeds former Anchin GC Mark Zuffante, who had led the firm's legal department since 2013. He has started his own practice, according to his LinkedIn profile. 

In announcing Lieberman's hiring, Anchin managing partner Frank Schettino described her in a prepared statement as an “accomplished M&A specialist” who also is “experienced in numerous client-facing agreements and compliance issues.”

During her career, Lieberman has finalized dozens of transactions valued at more than $1 billion in multiple states and countries for a variety of industries, according to her professional bio. 

A graduate of Hofstra University and the New York University School of Law, Lieberman entered the legal world in 1996 as a name partner in the boutique law firm of Kramer, Coleman, Wactlar & Lieberman, where she spent a decade focusing on corporate, acquisition, securities and finance transactions.

She went on to serve for more than six years as a partner at New York law firm Farrell Fritz, where she represented public and private companies in corporate matters and securities transactions and regulations. 

She left Farrell Fritz in 2013 to go in-house as a deputy general counsel for national accounting firm Marcum in Melville, New York. At Marcum, she focused on acquisitions, financing and legal issues. 

Anchin was founded in New York in 1923 and now has a staff of about 360, making it the largest single-office public accounting firm in North America, according to the company's website. 

The firm was the subject of national headlines in 2013, when a jury in Boston found that financial advisers at Anchin mismanaged the fortune of crime novelist Patricia Cornwell and awarded the best-selling author a nearly $51 million verdict. 

But a judge later overturned the verdict, prompting both sides to reach a confidential settlement in 2017.