SEC Bigwig and Trump Nemesis Returns to Debevoise

Debevoise & Plimpton announced Tuesday that it has re-hired Andrew Ceresney, who spent the past three years as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Director of Enforcement.

Ceresney will re-join the firm in New York as co-chair of its litigation department and said in an interview he expects to counsel clients who are under investigation for criminal and civil regulatory matters and also work on civil litigation. He had departed the firm in 2013 to join the SEC.

Previously while at Debevoise, Ceresney was one of the lawyers who deposed now-President Donald Trump in 2007. At the time, Trump was suing Ceresney’s ...