Adam Hakki

Senior Partner Shearman & Sterling LLP

Adam Hakki is Shearman & Sterling’s Senior Partner and Chair of the Firm. Adam maintains an active trial and investigations practice centered on “bet the company” matters. The American Lawyer named Adam “Litigator of the Year” in both 2023 and 2021. Particularly versatile, Adam is recognized by Chambers for each of Securities Litigation, Antitrust Litigation and Financial Services Enforcement and Investigations. Adam is also one of only four lawyers in New York recognized by Chambers as a “Star Performer” for Securities Litigation. Law360 has selected Adam for its prestigious “MVP” recognition five years in a row. Benchmark Litigation has named Adam its “Securities Lawyer of the Year” four times, and The Legal 500 has named him to its “Hall of Fame.” Adam has decades of experience representing companies in their highest stakes matters in the courtroom, in internal investigations, and before government enforcers. He 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.