§ 01Overview
Adam Ferreira defends companies and executives in white-collar criminal and regulatory matters, including securities fraud, sanctions and export-control investigations, and tries the cases that do not resolve.
§ 02Experience
Representative matters
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Defending a payments company in a consumer protection investigation by state attorneys general
Representing the company in a multistate inquiry into fee disclosures.
Investigations & White Collar · Antitrust & Competition
Represented a former executive of a digital-asset exchange in a sanctions inquiry
Advised an individual through interviews with regulators and prosecutors; no action was taken against the client.
Investigations & White Collar
§ 03Credentials
Credentials
- Bar admissions
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Education
- Hollins Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2003
- Weston State University, B.A., Government, 2000
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
§ 04Insights
Insights by Adam
Internal investigations: the first seventy-two hours
Decisions made in the first days of an investigation are hard to undo. A checklist for general counsel.