Amy Longo

Amy Jane Longo is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s litigation and enforcement practice group, where she focuses on SEC enforcement matters and the defense of securities and other class action cases. Amy has more than 25 years of experience in securities litigation, with significant first-chair experience both as a defense counsel and as a senior SEC trial attorney. Amy has extensive experience in the financial services, technology and healthcare/life sciences industries, both in the public and the private sector, as well as in the defense of ERISA cases and other complex business disputes. She is an industry thought leader on AI-related matters, regularly advising clients on SEC enforcement and litigation trends, and proposed rulemaking.

Amy previously served as the Regional Trial Counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Los Angeles Regional Office in the Division of Enforcement. She oversaw all litigation brought by the SEC’s Los Angeles Regional Office—from pre-filing through trial or resolution—in federal district court and SEC administrative proceedings. While at the SEC, Amy litigated cases involving offering frauds, financial reporting and disclosures, accounting, cryptocurrency, insider trading, market manipulation, securities registration, broker dealers, investment advisers, investment companies, and the FCPA. In addition to running the trial unit, she also served as the lead trial counsel on securities enforcement matters as well as advising on investigations that led to negotiated resolutions. Amy brought numerous cases involving digital assets while at the SEC. She now advises clients on regulatory enforcement issues related to cryptocurrency, among many other aspects of enforcement, as well as handling SEC examinations.

Amy also serves as a Steering Committee member of R&G Insights Lab, a differentiated solution for corporate governance and risk in complex business environments.

Prior to joining the SEC in 2013, Amy was a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of a major international law firm, where she practiced for fifteen years with a focus on securities and derivative suits, internal and government investigations, financial services and ERISA litigation, and federal and state class actions.