Adam Magid Bio

Adam Magid is a partner in Cadwalader’s Global Litigation Group. Adam has extensive experience handling high-risk and complex commercial disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts around the country. His diverse trial and appellate practice focuses on federal securities law, breach of fiduciary duty, corporate governance, and appraisal actions, Delaware law, litigation arising from corporate control disputes, proxy contests, and transactions involving special purpose acquisition corporations (SPACs), business and contract disputes, and disputes involving shareholders, partnerships, and limited liability companies. Adam has represented financial institutions, hedge funds, real estate investment companies, insurance companies, corporations, directors, executives, and high-net-worth individuals in a wide range of complex litigation matters, including securities, M&A, antitrust, bankruptcy, contract, commercial real estate foreclosure, class action, shareholder derivative, and RICO litigations, as well as internal investigations. Adam has extensive commercial arbitration experience, including under American Arbitration Association and International Chamber of Commerce rules. Adam has particular expertise in advising parties on matters of alternative entity law (limited liability companies and partnerships) in Delaware and other jurisdictions, including in connection with litigation involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and LLC dissolution. Adam also has represented business entities and individuals in general commercial litigation matters. Adam also has extensive regulatory experience, including representing clients in investigations conducted by the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and U.S. Attorney’s Offices in multiple jurisdictions. Adam has recent experience representing a publicly traded company in connection with an investigation and civil enforcement action brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission in federal district court. Adam has represented clients in connection with multiple insider trading investigations conducted by various federal authorities. Adam is active in pro bono, including representation before the EOIR Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals. Adam received the 2018 Pro Bono Publico Award for outstanding service to The Legal Aid Society and its clients. Adam recently represented a group of prominent professors of law and international relations in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit challenging a $16.1 billion judgment entered against Argentina, among the largest ever judgments ever entered against a sovereign country in a U.S. court. Adam writes regularly on developments in federal securities litigation and class actions. Adam has co-authored articles on securities litigation developments featured inThe Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, Chambers and Partners, and the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section, and Lexology, as well as articles on M&A litigation and pre-suit demands for Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law The Journal. Adam also has published articles in the Stanford Law and Policy Review and Indiana Law Journal Supplement. Adam serves as consulting editor for Lexology’s Securities Litigation, a reference guide enabling comparisons of issues, insights, and trends around the globe. Adam has also taught a CLE course on securities law developments for “Lawline.” Adam is active in the legal community and bar associations, including serving on the Board of Editors for the Federal Bar Council Quarterly, for which he is a frequent contributor, a member of the Federal Bar Council Securities Litigation Committee, and a member of the New York City Bar’s Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests Committee. Adam also serves on the Board of Advisors of NYU School of Law’s Institute of Judicial Administration. Prior to joining Cadwalader, Adam was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in that firm’s litigation department. Adam received a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Stanford University and his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was Notes Editor of the Stanford Law Review.