Anthony M. Alexis J.D. — Assistant Director of Enforcement at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Mr. Anthony M. Alexis, also known as Tony, J.D., has been Partner and Head of Consumer Financial Services Enforcement Practice at Goodwin Procter LLP since November 27, 2017. Mr. Alexis was Assistant Director of Enforcement and Head of the Office of Enforcement at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since January 2015. He has extensive enforcement and compliance experience. Mr. Alexis served as Acting Assistant Director, Principal Deputy and Deputy Assistant Director for Field Litigation for the CFPB's Office of Enforcement. He served as a Partner at Mayer Brown LLP until March 2012. Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2008, Mr. Alexis had been an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia for 13 years. During that time, he served as the senior attorney in the Fraud & Public Corruption Section and as the Deputy Chief of the Federal Major Crimes Section, where he was responsible for supervising and conducting the investigation and prosecution of federal criminal offenses, including economic crimes fraud, extra-territorial crimes, money laundering, immigration fraud and environmental crimes. He also investigated and prosecuted a number of high-profile complex white-collar crimes, including bribery, public corruption, embezzlement, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations and health care fraud. Mr. Alexis conducted more than 25 civil and criminal jury trials in both Federal and the DC Superior Court. Before joining the US Attorney's office, Mr. Alexis spent four years as trial attorney for the Commercial Litigation Branch of the US Department of Justice. There he worked on dozens of investigations and complex, wide-ranging False Claims Act and fraud matters ranging from procurement and healthcare fraud to kickbacks, bribes and conflicts of interest. In 2006, Mr. Alexis received the prestigious United States Department of Justice Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant US Attorney and he also received five United States Attorney's Office Special Achievement Awards for outstanding performance. He received a JD from Howard University School of Law in 1984 and BA from George Washington University in 1981.