Gary Barnett has been appointed to serve as the Director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight, a newly created division that is part of the CFTC’s restructuring to fulfill its expanded responsibilities under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Mr. Barnett is currently head of the U.S. Derivatives and Structured Finance Practice Group at Linklaters LLP in New York, NY.