Adam Hollander has two decades of experience representing businesses and institutional and individual investors. He has successfully represented clients in a wide range of complex litigation matters, including class and individual actions raising securities fraud and other shareholder claims in federal and state trial and appellate courts.
Adam's practice includes representing plaintiffs and defendants in both large and more focused disputes. He recently led the team representing Alaska Native Corporation the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation in a case alleging professional malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair trade practice claims against a large, multinational law firm. That case resolved after the Court struck Defendants' answer after years of discovery abuse and the parties agreed to a settlement on confidential terms.
Adam's other recent matters include representing a class of investors prosecuting securities claims against Credit Suisse arising out of the collapse of exchange-traded notes offered by the bank; representing a publicly traded company defending fiduciary duty claims in the Delaware Court of Chancery; defending a large hedge fund and its principles against claims of fraud and breach of contract; and representing an individual raising constitutional claims against the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in connection with his participation in a federal loan repayment program. He has also represented amici in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and maintains an active pro bono practice.
Adam was previously a partner at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, where he litigated numerous high-stakes securities and shareholder class and derivative actions, serving as a senior member of teams that recovered over $700 million for investors. He played a key role in cases alleging securities claims arising from the catastrophic crashes of Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft; the collapse of the multi-billion-dollar hedge fund Archegos Capital Management; the “Facebook Files” that disclosed extensive wrongdoing and misrepresentations at social-media company Meta and its platforms; Volkswagen’s “Dieselgate” emissions-cheating scandal; and the collapse of SunEdison, formerly the world’s largest renewable energy company. Adam was also integral to two successful appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, one involving claims against home healthcare company Amedisys and the other concerning theme-park operator Six Flags, both of which substantially clarified and strengthened the standards for pleading securities-fraud claims.
Earlier in his career, Adam served as a judicial law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for the Honorable Barrington D. Parker, Jr. and on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut for the Honorable Stefan R. Underhill. He also served as an associate with Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and white-collar litigation boutique Brune & Richard LLP.