Career moves

Rafshoon will work in Hunton & Williams’ public-private partnership practice.

Michael Post will take on the role of chief legal officer after Bob Fippinger leaves this month.

Jessica Giroux will replace Bill Daly as NABL's director of government affairs next year.

Drexel Hamilton hired Roger Anderson as senior vice president, expanding its municipal finance team.

Mark E. Van Der Weide will replace Scott G. Alvarez as Federal Reserve Board general counsel, the Fed announced Thursday.

R. Seelaus & Co. said Quentin Murray would join the firm as head of sales and trading after spending the past four years at Stifel Nicholas.

Laura Whittall-Scherfee will direct a California agency that finances affordable housing.

Wells Fargo Securities hired four public finance veterans for key roles in its government and institutional banking group as it expands its housing and higher education teams.

UBS Wealth Management announced its newest addition to its growing public finance business, as Angela Schmidt will come aboard after 19 years at JP Morgan.

KeyBanc Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of KeyCorp announced today the appointment of Corey Whitbeck and Robert Campbell to its high yield sales team in Albany, New York, further expanding the firm’s capital markets group.

The University of Illinois will conduct a national search to replace retiring CFO Walter Knorr.

Academy Securities hired Kevin Steinhauer as director of municipal trading, part of a build-up of the veteran-owned firm's muni business.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., announced the continued enhancement of its public finance business with the addition of Lisa Smith, formerly of Siebert, Cisneros, Shank & Co. LLC.

The SEC under chair Jay Clayton will operate with two co-directors of enforcement, Stephanie Avakian and Steven Peikin, and at least one of them has experience with the municipal bond market.

Butler Snow LLP has hired former U.S. Sen. David Vitter to work in the firm’s New Orleans’ office.

Alexandra Lebenthal stepped down after more than a decade at the helm of Lebenthal Holdings LLC, after the family-owned firm failed to close a deal to sell a 49% stake.

Barclays is bolstering its Chicago team with three banking additions at the expense of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Robert D. Gordon joins the law firm of Jenner & Block as a partner in its restructuring and bankruptcy practice. He will be based in New York City.

South Carolina-based Pope Flynn added a procurement practice and two new attorneys in Charleston.

Kent Hiteshew will leave as director of Treasury's Office of State and Local Finance at the end of the week.