Adam Hickey

Adam Hickey (LinkedIn) is a partner in the Cybersecurity, National Security, and Government Investigations practice groups of Mayer Brown LLP, where he offers clients extensive experience in cybersecurity, sanctions, export controls, the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), criminal law, federal surveillance statutes, and other national security authorities. Prior to joining Mayer Brown, he was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) of DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD) and an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York (SDNY). 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.