Michael A Levy

Practice Areas

MIKE LEVY represents individuals and corporations in major criminal cases and investigations. He argued and secured a unanimous 9-0 victory in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of “Bridgegate” defendant Bill Baroni in Kelly v. United States, obtaining reversal of Baroni’s criminal conviction and dismissal of all charges. Mike is also one of the lawyers defending a major multinational telecommunications equipment company against charges of racketeering, trade secret theft, bank fraud, and other alleged offenses in a pending federal criminal case in the Eastern District of New York.

In addition to white collar criminal defense at the trial and appellate level, Mike’s practice also focuses on complex commercial litigation, commercial arbitration, securities enforcement matters, and internal corporate investigations. On the commercial litigation front, Mike has recently tried multiple high-stakes commercial arbitrations through multi-week evidentiary hearings involving hundreds of millions of dollars in claims, while also leading complex Delaware litigation involving nine-figure disputes between business partners. On the enforcement and regulatory side, Mike regularly represents corporations, senior executives, and financial services professionals in high-profile federal investigations conducted by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other government and regulatory agencies.

Before joining Sidley in 2016, Mike spent 13 years as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, including three years as that office’s Chief of Appeals, supervising all criminal appellate litigation and counseling office leadership on complex legal issues. Prior to becoming Chief of Appeals, Mike spent a decade prosecuting cases in a variety of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s white collar units, including the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, the Complex Frauds unit, and the Public Corruption unit.

Across his time in government and private practice, Mike has personally briefed and/or argued more than 100 appeals in numerous federal circuits and the United States Supreme Court, and has conducted more than a dozen federal trials.