Sean Hecker is a partner at Hecker Fink LLP.
He is recognized nationally as a leading trial lawyer, with a practice focusing on white collar criminal defense, government and internal investigations, complex civil litigation, and regulatory compliance.
Sean’s practice includes representing officers, directors and corporations, across various industries, in grand jury and regulatory investigations, including those conducted by the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FTC, IRS, and federal and state banking regulators and state law enforcement agencies. He also regularly represents companies and individuals in matters concerning alleged securities and commodities fraud, market manipulation, corruption (including the FCPA), accounting fraud, money laundering, tax fraud, and antitrust violations, and he handles a wide variety of civil litigation for both large and small corporations and private firms.
In one particularly notable matter, Global Investigations Review honored Sean’s work in US v. Bogucki by naming the case its 2019 “Most Important Court Case of the Year.” Serving as lead counsel to Robert Bogucki, who was accused of orchestrating an alleged $6 billion fraudulent scheme, Sean secured a rare acquittal at the conclusion of the Government’s case. Finding that no jury could reasonably convict Bogucki on the evidence presented, the presiding judge noted that he had never granted such an acquittal in his twenty years on the bench.
Sean maintains an active pro bono practice, including successfully securing a temporary restraining order that restored legal visitation rights at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, NY after visits had been suspended in violation of the constitutional right to counsel. He also successfully represented two New York State elected officials who were assaulted, pepper sprayed, and had their right to protest aggressively curtailed by the New York Police Department at a protest in Brooklyn. He is the former President of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, a member of the board and past Chair of the Office of the Appellate Defender and the Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., and previously served as Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Mass Incarceration Task Force.
Sean was named 2020 White Collar Crime/Investigations/Enforcement Attorney of the Year and 2024 White Collar Crime/Investigations Litigator of the Year by Benchmark Litigation, which has also recognized him for many years as among the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the country. Sean was also inducted as a fellow into the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of North America’s premier legal associations. Sean has received widespread praise and acclaim from publications including Chambers, The Legal 500, The National Law Journal, Law360, Lawdragon 500, and Who’s Who Legal & Global Investigations Review, among others.
Updated Oct 2024
