Top SEC lawyer Matthew Martens to exit for private practice

The Securities and Exchange Comm𒐪ission’s top trial lawy🉐er is planning to leave the agency by the end of the year, The Post has learned.

Mat൲thew Martens — who scored a big SEC victory in the case against ex-Goldman Sachs tr♑ader Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Tourre — is looking to leave public service for a job in private practice and could exit as early as October.

Although the 41-year-old Martens ha🍌s been weighing such a move for a while, he hadn’t made up his 𒆙mind until relatively recently, sources said.

The legal eagl𒅌e has been in talks with several law firms, but the number of suitors has increased sin☂ce Martens wrapped up the most high-profile case of his career.

Last month a Manhattan federal jury found Tourre liable on six counts of civil securities fraud after a three-week trial, deliveri🐲ng the SEC’s biggest courtroom win since the 2008 financial crisis.

Martens is be♍ing courted by a bevy of leading law firms including Paul, Weiss and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, among others.

The trial lawyer considered following his mentor, Robert Khuzami, who recruited him to the SEC, but want𝐆s to pursue his own path, sources said.

Khuzami landed at Kirkland & Elli✱s two mo🐻nths ago after departing as the SEC’s enforcement chief back in January.

Marten’s impending depaꦅrture will leave the SEC with a dearth of seasoned lawyers with courtroom litigating chops, at a time when relatively new SEC chief Mary Jo White takes tougher actions against Wall Street wrongdoers.

Martens’ bosses, Andrew Ceresney and George Canellos, will likely ♔either look to fill his post internally or recruit an experienced litigator, sources said.