Helping you on the right path.
August Way is a bespoke law firm for financial services companies, executives and professionals looking to achieve excellence and innovation while remaining compliant with the securities rules and laws.
Adam Wasserman, our managing member, has 25 years’ legal, finance and securities experience – including building and leading the New York Stock Exchange’s preeminent enforcement program -- helping to assure that America’s markets remain safe, efficient and fair. As a partner at a leading global law firm, he represented financial industry clients (including the Board of Directors of Lehman Brothers) in some of the most complex, institution defining securities regulation and litigation matters of the past two decades. We excel in advising and representing clients in regulatory and compliance, corporate governance, and securities litigation and investigation matters, as well as helping financial institutions pursue ESG and sustainable development goals. We give each client dedicated personal attention in order to help you achieve your goals – in an effective, efficient and cost effective manner.
Practice Areas
ESG & Sustainable Finance
Bespoke Education
Compliance, Risk & Ethics
ESG & Sustainable Finance
Environmental, Social, and Governance or ESG. These three words are the future of finance. Not just because they make companies look good (they do). Not just because ESG is of growing importance to investors (it is).
Bespoke Education
Education empowers. Not just during high school and college. But on the trading floor, in the c-suite, and in the boardroom as well.
Compliance, Risk & Ethics
One of any firm’s most valuable assets is its reputation. And, fostering a culture of ethics and compliance is critical to protecting that asset, your firm, and its people.
Corporate Governance
Mr. Wasserman has extensive experience advising boards, committees, and executives on matters of corporate governance. He spent more than three years advising the board of directors of Lehman Brothers and its audit committee as they worked to exit the largest bankruptcy in history.
Broker Dealers and Exchanges
Mr. Wasserman has extensive experience on issues facing broker-dealers. As Head of Enforcement at the New York Stock Exchange, he oversaw hundreds of NYSE and FINRA investigations involving nearly aspect of broker-dealer regulation…
Regulatory Investigations
Mr. Wasserman has more than two decades of experience representing clients in connection with complex government, regulatory, and internal investigations.
Individual Representations
A government or other regulatory investigation can be one of the most stressful experiences a person can face. But you do not have to handle it alone. Mr. Wasserman has spent the majority of his career working with individuals to navigate regulatory investigations and their real life consequences.
Mr. Wasserman “balances tenacity with politeness” and “can be just as effective without jumping up and down and pounding his chest.”
— Law360 Rising Stars
Clients facing SEC investigations appreciate Mr. Wasserman’s “experienced, sage counsel.”
– The Legal 500