Bingham McCutchen has sealed the hire of the former enforcement head at the regulatory arm of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), reports The Am Law Daily.

Susan Merrill, who spent a total of six years as head of enforcement for the NYSE's regulatory arm and the entity that succeeded it, will join Bingham's broker-dealer group in New York this week.

Merrill stepped down last month as chief of enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a private corporation that regulates brokerage firms and trading markets.