Antonia M. Apps

Antonia Apps is a Partner and Co-Chair of the Litigation Department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. She previously served as a Deputy Director of the Division of Enforcement, the Acting Deputy Director of Enforcement and the Regional Director of the New York Office of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to joining the SEC, she was a litigation partner at Milbank LLP, practicing in the areas of white-collar defense, securities enforcement, and commercial litigation. Earlier in her career, Antonia served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office for over seven years, where she led many of the government’s high-profile securities fraud and insider trading cases, including the prosecution of the hedge fund S.A.C. Capital Advisors. Antonia received the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys’ Director’s Award for Superior Performance.

Antonia has tried 19 criminal and civil cases, argued numerous appeals and evidentiary motions, and is a fellow of the American College of Trial lawyers. Antonia has received numerous industry accolades, including being ranked in Chambers USA for “White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations” where clients called her an “incredibly bright and detail-oriented lawyer” and praised her “excellent judgment and analytical skills in white-collar litigation.” She has been included on The National Law Journal’s “Litigation Trailblazers” (2020) and Crain’s New York Business’s “Notable Women in Law” (2019) lists. She was named a Lawdragon “Legend” in 2025 and as one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Lawyers in America” every year from 2014 to 2022.

Earlier in her career, Antonia was a partner at the Washington, DC, law firm Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick. She received her undergraduate degree in law from the University of Sydney and went on to earn a Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford University and an LLM from Harvard Law School. She served as a law clerk for the Hon. Fred I. Parker in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and previously as a law clerk to the Hon. Tom W. Waddell, Chief Judge of the Equity Division in the New South Wales Supreme Court.