On March 20, 2012, Finn Dixon & Herling LLP announced that Jeffrey Plotkin and Michael Q. English have joined the firm as Partners.  Plotkin is a former SEC enforcement attorney and English joins the firm from the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.  The moves are part of a trend of white collar defense lawyers, SEC veterans and former prosecutors moving to firms with notable investment management practices.  This trend, in turn, is a function of the heightened enforcement activity focused on hedge fund managers and other investment management industry participants.