In Private Practice

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy

• Advising an Energy corporation on dealing with cybersecurity regulation
• Advised a Private Equity Investment company on an email phishing scheme
• Advised a Cryptocurrency company on multiple ransomware attacks
• Advised a corporate client on a M&A transaction revolving around a cybersecurity breach
• Counseled a major semiconductor company through a data breach and worked with the company to inform state and federal regulators of the data breach
• Counseled a major circuit board producer though a major data breach dealing with thousands of individuals personal identifying information being disclosed
• Counseled a major advertising company dealing with the discloser of thousands of PII data.
• Serve as breach counsel for a corporate client and work directly with their CSIRT team
• Advising a corporate client to rewrite their privacy policy
• Representing a large Social Media company in litigation dealing with Privacy issues
• Advised a large Social Media company on Privacy Compliance issues

White Collar and Corporate Investigations

• Represented a CISO in an SEC investigation dealing with a cyber incident.
• Representing a corporate client in regard to a corporate investigation involving potential FCA claims
• Represented a corporate client in regard to an investigation in the United States based on employee embezzlement
• Representing a client dealing with a criminal DOJ investigation involving bank fraud
• Advising multiple corporate clients dealing with DOJ, SEC, and CFTC subpoenas
• Represented corporate board members dealing with parallel DOJ and SEC fraud investigation
• Advised a logistics company on a Department of Labor Investigation
• Represented a corporate client dealing with an internal investigation of employee data theft
• Representing a corporate client dealing with a federal and state regulatory investigation on the distribution of certain products in the United States

Fintech

• Advised a large video game developer on anti-money laundering policies dealing with in-game currency
• Advised a Blockchain technology company on anti-money laundering policies
• Advising multiple cryptocurrency platforms on law enforcement inquiries
• Advising a cryptocurrency client dealing with US regulatory scrutiny

In Government

While at the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, Sid prosecuted the following defendants:

• A CEO and Inventor of a cryptocurrency altcoin, who bilked investors out of millions. Making it one of first initial-coin offering cases charged in the country;
• A group who created more than 20 fraudulent cryptocurrency investing platforms and defrauded investors out of more than US$70 million;
• An individual who launched multiple international DDoS cyberattacks on media, bloggers, and legal-news aggregation websites, including Leagle.com;
• The founders of a cryptocurrency company, who raised US$24 million from more than 13,000 investors. Being the first charged crypto case in the country on Tax Evasion;
• A home security technician, who hacked into more than 200 customers’ accounts to gain live access to their home video feeds;
• A group of six people, who hacked into airline miles accounts, stealing millions of miles, and using those miles to purchase tickets they sold to unsuspecting passengers;
• Two individuals who used an illegally obtained point-of-sale device to load millions of dollars of fraudulent store credits onto gift cards over nearly two years;
• Founder of an online website, which was the leading source of online advertisements for prostitution and sex trafficking, which generated more than US$21 million in profit;
• An individual who operated an illegal cash-to-cryptocurrency conversion scheme;
• An individual who sold fentanyl over the dark web in exchange for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies;
• An individual who sold cocaine and black tar heroin over the dark web (the case was charged under Operation DisrupTor, a coordinated international effort to disrupt opioid trafficking on the dark web); and
• Eight members of the MS-13 international criminal gang on charges of racketeering conspiracy, attempted murder in aid of racketeering, assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, and use, carry, and possession of a firearm during a violent crime