Career moves

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.

Bill Daly, NABL's director of governmental affairs, plans to retire at the end of the year and the group is looking for his replacement.

Tim Sullivan will become research director at the Citizens Budget Commission in New York.

S&P Global Ratings named Ken Gacka to manage analysis of the not-for-profit healthcare sector.

The New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority named Olga Chernat as its executive director. A chartered financial analyst who previously served NYW as treasurer and deputy treasurer, Chernat will start in her new position on Wednesday, the authority said.

RBC Capital Markets hired David Utz, formerly of Goldman Sachs, as its managing director and head of its U.S. infrastructure team.

Chapman and Cutler hired four attorneys to boost its expansion into the Southeast.

Sonia Toledo will head a new specialty area focusing on state, city and county general finance at Frasca & Associates. Toledo joins Frasca from Wells Fargo Securities where she worked for the past seven years.

Jay Clayton became the 32nd chair of the SEC after being sworn into the rule on Thursday.

Cook County is losing Ivan Samstein to the University of Chicago.

Rick Kolman has joined Academy Securities as a managing director.

Advisory firm Umbaugh named Marvin Founds as its first director of Ohio education finance.