V. Gerard “Jerry” Comizio, chair of the global banking and payment systems practice at Paul Hastings, has joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Washington, D.C., where he will also head his new firm’s banking group.

Comizio, 61, has advised some of the world’s biggest financial institutions on the Dodd-Frank Act and other regulatory matters during nearly a decade at Paul Hastings. He joined the firm in early 2008 from Thacher Proffitt & Wood, which dissolved almost a year later.