President-elect Trump has nominated Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton to head the Securities and Exchange Commission in his administration, transition officials announced Wednesday.

Clayton, a current partner at the international law firm Sullivan and Cromwell, is widely recognized as a top corporate lawyer in the United States and previously worked as an adjunct law professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

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