18 Feb 2026
Antonia M. Apps Joins Paul, Weiss Litigation Department as Partner
"Antonia M. Apps has joined Paul, Weiss as a partner in the Litigation Department, focusing on trial litigation, white-collar crime, government investigations and regulatory enforcement."
Apps joins Paul, Weiss from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she served in senior enforcement roles. From 2023 to 2025 she led the SEC’s New York regional office as Regional Director, overseeing an office of more than 600 professionals and presiding over a period in which the New York office brought more standalone enforcement actions and completed more examinations than any other SEC office. In January 2025 she was promoted to Acting Deputy Director of the Enforcement Division, helping oversee the SEC’s nationwide enforcement activities and manage a 1,300-person division that handles the agency’s investigations and trials. In April 2025 she was named Deputy Director of Enforcement, overseeing the enforcement program in the New York, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia regional offices.
Before joining the SEC, Apps was a litigation partner at another large law firm, representing financial institutions, corporations, investment banks, executives, asset managers and private equity firms in white-collar and internal investigations, regulatory enforcement proceedings and high-stakes commercial litigation. Earlier in her career she served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she led numerous high-profile securities fraud and insider trading prosecutions. A prominent trial lawyer, Apps is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, has tried 19 cases and has argued numerous appeals in federal courts.