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Adam Hickey

Adam Hickey

USA 2026

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Privacy & Data Security: Cybersecurity

USA - Nationwide

1 year ranked

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Practice Areas

Adam Hickey 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.

Adam draws on more than 15 years of experience at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) handling high-profile national security matters intersecting with the private sector. 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).

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Privacy & Data Security: Cybersecurity - USA - Nationwide

Band 5
Individual Editorial

Adam Hickey leverages his experience at the US Department of Justice in advising private companies on cybersecurity investigations and ransomware attacks. He is also equally adept at representing his clients through data breach class actions and litigations.

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Strengths

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  • Adam's time at the Department of Justice, combined with his legal acumen, make him a peerless advocate for his clients.

    Privacy & Data Security: CybersecurityChambers Guide to the USA

  • Adam is a very sharp and a strategically good thinker.

    Privacy & Data Security: CybersecurityChambers Guide to the USA

  • Adam has great understating of how US regulators work, understands what they are thinking, fills in the gaps and helps us have the best approach to address the issues.

    Privacy & Data Security: CybersecurityChambers Guide to the USA

  • Adam has taken extraordinary complex matters and helped us navigate them in an unparalleled way.

    Privacy & Data Security: CybersecurityChambers Guide to the USA

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