The Securities and Exchange Commission this week named Stephanie Avakian deputy director of its Division of Enforcement. She will begin her new role in late June.

Avakian joins the SEC from law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where she currently is a partner and a vice chair of the firm's securities practice. Avakian previously worked in the SEC Enforcement Division as a branch chief in the New York Regional Office, and later served as a counsel to SEC Commissioner Paul Carey.