Adam

Michael

Raviv

Adam Raviv co-leads the Automotive and Mobility practice at Sidley Austin LLP and focuses on regulatory matters and dispute resolution. Having served in a variety of senior political appointments in government, including as chief counsel of the primary federal regulator of the U.S. auto industry, he can leverage his experience to represent clients in matters involving automotive safety and fuel economy, including enforcement, litigation, compliance, and the federal rulemaking process. Adam also has extensive experience in international arbitration and commercial and regulatory litigation. In addition, he represents and advises clients on the nomination and appointment process and advises both corporate and individual clients on government ethics and attorney professional responsibility issues.

Previously, Adam served as chief counsel at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). In that role, he led the 45-member legal department and was the second-ranking official at the 800-employee agency, an operating administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. NHTSA is the primary regulator of the U.S. automotive industry and one of the most active regulatory and rulemaking agencies in the federal government. Adam acted as a leader in all aspects of the agency’s legal, executive, and policy functions.

Before joining NHTSA, Adam served as senior counsel in the Office of the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As part of the front office of DOJ’s largest litigating component, he oversaw and advised on many of the most sensitive and high-profile matters handled by the Civil Division’s 1,200 attorneys and United States Attorney’s Offices across the country. 

Earlier, as senior ethics counsel in the White House, Adam served as lead ethics attorney for the White House vetting team. In that role, he advised White House leadership on government ethics and financial disclosure issues, vetting and working with hundreds of potential nominees and appointees to senior administration roles throughout the government, and conceiving and implementing administration-wide ethics policies.

Before entering government, Adam spent over a decade at another major international law firm, and also taught an annual course in international arbitration as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He clerked for The Honorable Stanley Marcus on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Adam has published widely in a variety of professional areas, and his writing has won awards and been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Adam is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was Executive Editor Chair of the Harvard Law Review; a first class honors graduate of the University of Auckland, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar and received a master's degree in political studies; and a cum laude graduate of Yale University.