Alexander Shapiro

Mr. Shapiro is a seasoned litigator who represents professionals and businesses in complex commercial disputes and in white collar regulatory and criminal investigations. Over the course of his career, Mr. Shapiro has counseled and advised clients on a broad range of issues, including breach of contract, securities fraud, money laundering, competition and confidentiality, spoliation, false advertising, discovery in aid of foreign litigation, whistleblower claims, and compliance and policy development. Mr. Shapiro has extensive trial experience, having personally led and/or directed numerous trials in federal and state courts, as well as before administrative tribunals such as FINRA and the NLRB. Mr. Shapiro is also an accomplished appellate lawyer, having briefed and argued numerous appeals in federal circuit courts across the country. In the white-collar arena, Mr. Shapiro successfully defended a client in a criminal matter involving allegations of money laundering, leading to the dismissal of the indictment and release of millions of dollars in funds held for forfeiture.

Before entering private practice in 2001, Mr. Shapiro served as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice and then for six years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States' Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he successfully prosecuted numerous cases, ranging from complex commercial frauds to an international art theft conspiracy. In the course of his government career, Mr. Shapiro was the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Attorney General's John Marshall Award and the Chief Postal Inspector's Award. Mr. Shapiro has also spent over a decade managing litigation, internal investigations and compliance policies as senior in-house counsel for three Fortune 500 companies, The Bank of New York Mellon, Cablevision Systems Corporation (now Altice USA), and DXC Technology, Inc. At Cablevision, Mr. Shapiro held the position of Head of Litigation and Compliance Policy, while at DXC Technology, Mr. Shapiro was the Global Head of Litigation and Investigations.

Mr. Shapiro speaks and lectures regularly on topics in litigation and in-house compliance and case management. He has been a featured speaker at the Marcus Evans Chief Litigation Officer Summits and participated in CLE panels at the New York City Bar Association, Proskauer Rose LLP, the Connex Group Legal Executive Meeting, the ABA Section on International Law, and LegalTech. Mr. Shapiro also writes on issues of current legal interest and has published a number of articles in the Outside Counsel column of The New York Law Journal. Mr. Shapiro is currently a member of the New York City Bar Association's European Affairs Committee.