Adam Farra
Adam innovates complex litigation strategies for clients in antitrust, financial fraud, and consumer protection cases filed across the country.
Prosecuting claims worth millions and sometimes billions of dollars in cases involving novel legal theories and intricate facts, Adam has represented publicly traded companies, municipalities, state attorneys general, institutional investors, whistleblowers, and creditors’ committees in an array of plaintiff-side litigation. He founded Farra & Wang PLLC after working at one of the top corporate defense firms in the world, one of the top plaintiff-side law firms in the country, and a leading strategic dispute resolution boutique in Washington, D.C.
In cases spanning the areas of antitrust, corporate governance, consumer protection, racketeering, and securities law, Adam has worked with experts and co-counsel to obtain creative, precedent-setting results for his clients.
Adam is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he teaches Antitrust Law.
After law school, Adam clerked for Judge Andre M. Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Judge Peter J. Messitte of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, and Judge Kathryn Grill Graeff of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.
Adam lives in Baltimore.
J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, 2011 (magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Maryland Law Review)
B.A., University of Michigan, 2008
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, D.C.
Gilbert LLP, Washington, D.C.
Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (fellowship), Washington, D.C.
Judge Andre M. Davis, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Judge Peter J. Messitte, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Judge Kathryn Grill Graeff, Appellate Court of Maryland
District of Columbia
Maryland
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Adam's Representative Cases
In re Credit Default Swaps Auctions Litigation (D.N.M.)
We allege that 10 Wall Street banks created and then manipulated the auction process used in the valuation of certain financial instruments, causing artificial prices for the banks’ own benefit. On behalf of the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office and multiple public institutional investors, we filed a federal antitrust and market manipulation class action against the banks.
In re Shale Oil Antitrust Litigation (D.N.M.)
Representing the City of Baltimore in an antitrust class action, we allege that several major producers of shale oil colluded to restrict the production of crude oil so as to drive up its price and the price of petroleum products.
Chang et al. v. Shen Yun Performing Arts, Inc. et al. (S.D.N.Y.)
On behalf of four former performers, we allege that the performing arts company Shen Yun and certain of its affiliates have generated hundreds of millions of dollars from a forced child labor scheme, recruiting vulnerable young dancers and musicians into an educational program that is ultimately a pretext for a brutal system of coercion and control.
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. The Agora Companies, LLC, et al. (Cir. Ct. Balt. City)
Agora has cultivated the image of an offbeat Baltimore publisher writing about health, finance, and retirement. The City of Baltimore alleges it is something else: a marketing and supplements operation that targets older consumers, with ads promising a cancer treatment with no side effects and get-rich-quick “insider” investment strategies. The complaint alleges Agora lures customers with cheap subscriptions and refund guarantees, then upsells them into products that are hard to cancel — one elderly consumer’s family reported spending more than $30,000 in two years. We represent the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, with Relman Colfax and the Baltimore City Law Department, seeking penalties, restitution, and an order stopping the practices.
Blanco Bonilla et al. v. CSI Aviation, Inc. et al. (D.D.C.)
In March 2025, three chartered planes carried more than 230 Venezuelan men out of Texas. The men had been told they were going home to Venezuela. Instead they were flown to El Salvador and locked in CECOT, a prison whose own officials boasted that no one leaves alive, where they were held incommunicado for four months and, they allege, beaten and tortured. A federal judge ordered the flights halted and the planes returned. They went to El Salvador anyway. We represent three of those men in a class action against the two aviation companies that flew them, CSI Aviation and GlobalX.
