Hadassa Waxman is a partner in the Litigation Department, and a member of the White Collar Defense & Investigations and Securities Litigation Groups. Her practice is focused on representing corporations and senior executives in civil and criminal investigations, enforcement and regulatory matters, and securities litigation.
Prior to joining Proskauer, Hadassa was a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she also served as Co-Chief of the General Crimes Unit. In that role, Hadassa supervised approximately 50 AUSAs, oversaw 30 trials, completed nine trials of her own, and managed more than 1,000 unit cases involving wire fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, cybercrime and corporate criminal liability, among others. An experienced prosecutor, Hadassa has investigated, prosecuted and supervised scores of cases involving a wide range of cybercrimes, including hacking, cyber extortion, cyberstalking, ransomware and unauthorized access to sensitive databases, including where the breach implicated national security issues.
Hadassa has written and presented on regulatory and enforcement issues of various federal and state statutes including SEC enforcement actions, FCPA investigations, conducting internal investigations and cybersecurity.
Education
- Columbia Law School, J.D.
- London School of Economics and Political Science, M.A.
- Brandeis University, B.A.
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Awards & Recognition
Benchmark Litigation Litigation Star 2023-2025
The Legal 500 United States: General Commercial Disputes 2020
The Legal 500 United States: White Collar Criminal Defense 2020-2021, 2023
The Legal 500 United States: Corporate Investigation & White-Collar Criminal Defense 2024
Best Lawyers in America 2023-2025
Matters
Representative Experience
- A professional services firm in an investigation of a former partner involved in cyberstalking
- Individual in an SEC investigation for accounting fraud
- A professional services firm in its attempt to modify or rescind a long-standing agreement with a government agency
- Professional sports league in the internal investigation of a team in its handling of domestic abuse allegations of one of its players
- Professional sports league in the internal investigation involving fraud
- Employee of a charitable organization in a federal grand jury investigation of a grantee of the charity
- Media outlet to provide crisis management advice and assistance with a Department of Justice investigation
- A corporate executive in a federal civil and criminal wire fraud investigation
- Former senior executive of a public company in a Department of Justice and SEC investigation for possible Foreign Corruption Practices Act violations