Adam Hakki

Biography

Adam Hakki is Global Head of Shearman & Sterling’s Litigation Group and also a member of the firm’s Executive Group. His practice focuses both on complex litigation and government investigations, with particular emphasis on class actions, shareholder derivative suits and civil and criminal investigations relating to securities, antitrust, derivatives, commodities and corporative governance issues in courts throughout the US and before the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FINRA and State AGs.  

Adam is recognized as a leading securities litigator in all major directories including Chambers USA, Legal 500 and Benchmark Litigation, which named Adam “2016 Securities Lawyer of the Year.”

Adam authored the chapter on damages in Litigating Securities Class Actions (Eisenberg, J., editor, LEXIS/NEXIS publisher), a comprehensive treatise on defending securities class actions whose contributing authors are recognized leaders in the field of securities litigation. He has also co-authored numerous publications on securities regulation, enforcement and litigation, including the lead chapter on handling parallel regulatory investigations and securities litigations for the Practising Law Institute’s book Handling a Securities Case: From Investigation to Trial and Everything in Between. Adam is also a frequent lecturer and panel participant on insider trading, SEC and government investigations, and litigation and compliance matters, for SIFMA, PLI, ALI and other leading groups.  

Adam received his J.D. from St. John’s School of Law, magna cum laude, where he was Executive Articles Editor of the Law Review.