Adam Hakki
Adam Hakki

Adam represents corporations, directors, executives, special committees, financial institutions and asset managers in their highest stakes matters at trial and on appeal, in internal investigations, and before government enforcers, especially the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, state attorneys general, bank regulators and FINRA. Adam has a particularly deep focus on cases and investigations involving securities, corporate governance, M&A, antitrust and competition, derivatives and commodities, insider trading, SPACs, financial disclosure and accounting, trading and investment banking regulation, general commercial matters and insolvency.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • Leading companies and/or their boards of directors, including Paramount Global, Twitter, PayPal, CVS Health, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Barclays, Sea Ltd, Hawaiian Electric, Opendoor Technologies, Iveric Bio, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank in major securities, shareholder derivative, antitrust and commercial litigations, government/regulatory enforcement matters and/or investigations.
  • Every major investment bank in high-stakes securities and other litigation related to securities offerings and other corporate transactions involving companies such as Silicon Valley Bank, Norfolk Southern Railroad, Nikola, Alibaba, SunEdison, MF Global, Countrywide Financial, and Enron.
  • Multiple leading financial institutions, including Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Bank of Montreal, and ICE in antitrust and Commodities Exchange Act litigation related to virtually every major financial product and benchmark, including LIBOR, FX, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, credit event auctions, VRDO/municipal bonds, U.S. Treasuries, GSE bonds, European government bonds, Mexican government bonds, CDOR, BBSW, silver trading, precious metals, ISDAfix, SSA bonds, Odd-lot corporate bonds, stock lending and others.
  • Major global banks, companies and hedge funds in dozens of DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FINRA, bank regulatory, state regulatory and internal investigations related to subjects such as securities, antitrust/price fixing, commodities, False Claims Act, FIRREA, SPACs, swaps, futures, currency trading, dark pools, high frequency trading, equity research, recordkeeping, securitization/MBS/CDO, rate setting/auctions, market manipulation, insider trading, disclosure, conflicts of interest, compliance and controls and governance.
  • Galleon Management in the then-largest DOJ and SEC insider trading prosecution in U.S. history.
  • Countrywide Financial, formerly the U.S.’s largest mortgage originator, in numerous RMBS lawsuits across the U.S alleging tens of billions of dollars in damages.
  • Merrill Lynch in is historic victory in the Enron securities class action (then the largest in U.S. history).
  • Amaranth International in FERC and class action litigation related to the then-largest hedge fund collapse in U.S. history.
  • Major global bank in connection multiple civil RICO and common lawsuits related to one of the largest alleged frauds in Latin American history.

Pro bono

  • Obtained the reversal of a death sentence on behalf of a defendant with mental retardation in Florida after a two-day trial, which the team eventually sustained on appeal.
  • Pro bono counsel on matters for the Legal Aid Society of New York and the Humane Society of the United States.
  • Two-time recipient of the Legal Aid Society’s Pro Bono Publica award and serves on the Board of Directors the Legal Aid Society.

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