Adam is a crypto-native litigator who represents founders, protocols, foundations, and investors in their highest-stakes disputes—with regulators, with counterparties, and with the bad actors who target digital-asset holders. He brings a decade of experience with securities, white-collar defense, and complex commercial litigation to a practice built around emerging technology. His work spans the full arc of a digital-asset matter: advising protocols on exiting bad counterparty relationships, recovering assets for investors and hack victims, and defending foundations and executives when the government brings criminal and/or enforcement proceedings.

Adam defends clients in civil enforcement actions, regulatory inquiries, internal investigations, and criminal proceedings involving the SEC, DOJ, and FINRA. His white-collar work has ranged from guiding senior executives of a leading social media company through an expansive federal criminal investigation, to defending an accountant against federal tax-evasion conspiracy charges, to conducting internal investigations involving more than $24 million in government-backed loans—a government-facing perspective he began building as a law student in the SEC's Enforcement Division and as a legal extern at the Federal Reserve of Atlanta.

When a dispute cannot be resolved short of a hearing, Adam tries the case. He second-chaired a three-week arbitration that defeated $118 million in fraud claims, tried and won a books-and-records action in the Delaware Court of Chancery, and recovered more than $1.8 million in a FINRA arbitration for an elderly victim of financial elder abuse—experience spanning hearing preparation, examination of key witnesses, and confirmation of favorable awards.

Alongside his litigation practice, Adam leads the firm's approach to artificial intelligence. As Chair of UMK's AI Adoption Task Force, he drives responsible AI adoption across attorney and administrative workflows while protecting client confidentiality, and he speaks on both crypto and AI in MCLE presentations.

NOTABLE REPRESENTATIONS

Crypto and Digital Assets

· Obtained dismissal of an SEC enforcement action against a foundation supporting a crypto social-media project, defeating the claim that the project's native utility token was an unregistered security—with no settlement payment and no acknowledgment of wrongdoing

· Recovered more than $700,000 in a pre-litigation settlement for victims of an unlicensed investment adviser who mismanaged client funds in leveraged DeFi products without adequate disclosures

· Represented a data-breach victim in a dispute with a centralized crypto exchange after cybercriminals used private data leaked by the exchange to impersonate customer support and steal the victim's assets

· Counseled a DeFi protocol startup on the strategic termination of a liquidity-supplier contract, mitigating downstream litigation exposure

· Secured a favorable resolution for crypto convention organizers in a contract dispute with the venue owner

White-Collar Defense

· Defended senior executives of a leading social media company through a federal criminal investigation, including preparation for and representation during grand jury testimony

· Defended an accountant against federal charges of conspiracy to evade income taxes through undisclosed offshore assets

· Conducted internal investigations, including one involving potential misstatements submitted with applications for more than $24 million in government-backed loans

· Defeated a regulatory action brought by a major California city seeking to permanently debar a public-contractor client from bidding on future city contracts

· Defended Fortune 25 financial institutions against class actions alleging violations of the securities laws

Trials and Arbitrations

· Second-chaired a three-week arbitration regarding $118 million in fraud claims arising from construction financing for a major Los Angeles hotel

· Tried and won a books-and-records action in the Delaware Court of Chancery, compelling production of business records wrongfully withheld from members of the corporation's board

· Recovered more than $1.8 million in a FINRA arbitration on behalf of an elderly client targeted with financial elder abuse