Adam S. Hickey

During his time at NSD, Adam established the Department's national security cyber program, dedicated to combatting malicious cyber activity by foreign intelligence services affecting major companies and critical infrastructure, and he supervised the criminal investigation and charging of every such case for more than a decade. As DAAG, Adam led investigations of companies and foreign governments for violating U.S. laws and negotiated complex corporate resolutions, often in fraught geopolitical contexts; oversaw DOJ’s work on hundreds of CFIUS and Team Telecom matters (often focusing on data security and data privacy risks); and spearheaded reforms of DOJ's FARA enforcement program.

During his time as an Assistant United States Attorney for SDNY, Adam focused on international narcotics trafficking, money laundering, export controls, and counterterrorism. He was a member of the Guantanamo Review Task Force and was one of the prosecutors who investigated and indicted five defendants accused of conducting the September 11 attacks. He also served briefly as Deputy Chief of Appeals.

Prior to joining DOJ, Adam clerked for the Hon. Robert A. Katzmann (USCA 2d Cir.) and the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff (USDC SDNY), and worked in the litigation department of a New York law firm.

• Sued the Department of Defense for equitable relief under the Administrative Procedures Act on behalf of a federal contractor improperly designated as an excluded entity pursuant to Section 841 of the FY2015 NDAA, and won rescission of the designation and removal of the contractor from SAM, enabling the contractor to resume competition for government contracts;
• Conducted a survey of regulated entities on behalf of their trade association to establish, under privilege, a common understanding in the industry of their regulator’s practices and their lawfulness;
• Partner with the Firm’s global Employment practice to advise companies on improvements to their insider risk and internal security programs, and manage investigations of employee misconduct under privilege;
• Advise entities and individuals on their compliance with FARA, including a sovereign wealth fund, a state-owned energy company, a political consulting firm, and a law firm during an investigation by DOJ of its registration obligations; and
• Represent clients in internal and criminal investigations, often involving counterintelligence, sanctions, or other national security authorities. Such investigations have related to grant fraud, deceptive marketing practices, bribery (FCPA), trade secret theft, DPRK IT worker infiltration, and threat intelligence gathering practices.