Alan B. Vickery

During more than 40 years of private practice and government service, Alan has handled many high-stakes and high-profile cases across a wide range of industries. He has in-depth experience in civil and criminal litigation, as well as criminal, regulatory, and internal investigations. A skilled strategist and advocate, he has a record of achieving successful outcomes for clients facing unusual and intractable problems. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers Magazine as one of the country’s leading business litigators and has been inducted into the Lawdragon Hall of Fame. A former Managing Partner of the firm, he continues to serve on the firm’s Executive Committee.

Alan has appeared in federal and state courts throughout the country. He has handled nationwide class actions, multijurisdictional proceedings, and parallel civil, criminal, and regulatory actions. He has conducted arbitrations under JAMS, AAA, ICDR, and ARIAS rules, and he has managed litigation in foreign countries.
 
Alan started his career as a law clerk to Second Circuit Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg and then U.S. Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist. He later served for seven years as a criminal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, ultimately as Chief of Business & Securities Fraud. He tried to jury verdict and argued on appeal complex market manipulation, securities fraud, and mail/wire fraud cases, as well as drug trafficking, money laundering, weapons, and continuing criminal enterprise cases.
 
Representative clients for whom Alan has litigated major civil cases include the New York Yankees, YES Network, NASCAR, Zurich Insurance, John Hancock, Lincoln Financial, Voya, and Caithness Energy. He has participated in important cases for Goldman Sachs, Oracle, Continental Airlines, IBM, Polaroid, Avis, Salomon Brothers, the FDIC/RTC, and Westinghouse. He also has advised The New York Times, Intertrust Technologies, Loeb Enterprises, Trizec founder Peter Munk, and German media mogul Leo Kirch.
 
Alan also represents corporations and individuals in grand jury investigations and criminal prosecutions, among them numerous unindicted executives and employees of Galleon Group in the S.D.N.Y.’s insider trading cases against Galleon founder Rajat Rajaratnam and former McKinsey chair Rajat Gupta.
 
Alan has lectured on white collar crime at Columbia, Yale, and Fordham law schools, the ABA’s White Collar Crime Institute, and St. Gallen University in Switzerland.

Columbia University Law School, New York City, Ideas of the First Amendment Seminar (Professor Vincent Blasi), 2017, Guest Lecturer

Note, Breach of Confidence: An Emerging Tort, 82 Colum. L. Rev. 1426 (1982) (cited by numerous federal and state courts, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; the highest courts of Oregon (en banc), Virginia, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the District of Columbia; and intermediate appellate courts of New York, California, New Mexico and Washington; and secondary sources such as 1 McCormick On Evid. § 72.1 (7th ed.))

St. Gallen University, Executive School of Management, Technology & Law, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2016, 2017, Guest Lecturer on U.S. White Collar Criminal Investigation, Prosecution and Defense

Yale University Law School, New Haven, April 2016, Guest Lecturer, Seminar on White Collar Criminal Defense: Critical Issues and Strategies

A.B.A. White Collar Section, San Francisco,1999, Panelist, Criminalizing Breach of Fiduciary Duties

A.B.A. White Collar Section, San Francisco, 1998, Panelist, Reinsurance Fraud, U.S. v. John Brennan and United States Aviation Underwriters

Columbia University Law School, New York City, White Collar Crime Seminar (Prof. John Coffee and U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff), 1995, 1997, 1998, 2017, Guest Lecturer

Andrews Publications Annual International Reinsurance Conference, Cambridge, Mass. 1997, Guest Lecturer, Reinsurance Fraud Based on Fiduciary Duties, U.S. v. John Brennan and United States Aviation Underwriters

Fordham Law School, New York City, 1994, Guest Lecturer, White Collar Crime Seminar

A.B.A. Antitrust Section, Section 1 Committee, Washington, D. C. 1989, Panelist, Essential Facility Doctrine in Airline Computer Reservation Systems Antitrust Litigation, Continental Airlines v. American Airlines and United Airlines