Alexander G. Galicki

Alexander is a trial lawyer whose practice focuses on technology-based litigation and white collar defense and investigations. He represents Fortune 500 companies in complex business disputes, consumer class actions and intellectual property litigation. He also represents venture capital funds, entrepreneurs and startups dealing with commercial litigation issues and government investigations. In addition, Alexander maintains a robust pro bono practice focusing primarily on immigration, criminal defense and intellectual property disputes.

Alexander’s representative matters include:

Complex business and intellectual property litigation

• Defending a VC firm against trade secret claims brought against a portfolio company
• Representing a virtual reality and augmented reality company in trade secret dispute
• Defending a tech entrepreneur in dispute regarding investment in Hollywood film production company
• Representing a TV broadcasting company in industrywide class action antitrust litigation
• Defending a VC firm in litigation against a former employee of unicorn company regarding a securities option contract
• Representing a beverage company in trademark dispute

White collar criminal defense and government-facing litigation

• Representing the former CEO of a public company in a US Securities and Exchange Commission insider trading investigation
• Advising a biotechnology company, its CEO and its chief financial officer in a SEC investigation
• Representing a post-initial public offering unicorn technology company in parallel Department of Justice and SEC government investigations
• Advising a pre-IPO venture-backed biotechnology company in internal investigation
• Representing a public university in Administrative Procedure Act (APA) litigation against the Department of Veterans Affairs

Pro bono

• Representing provisionally certified classes of detained persons, including medically vulnerable persons, in impact litigation against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) private prisons across California in regard to constitutionally inadequate COVID-19 conditions
• Advising an asylum seeker in affirmative asylum case

Prior to joining Cooley, Alexander was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Washington, DC. From 2015 to 2016, he clerked for Judge James O. Browning of the US District Court for the District of New Mexico. Alexander also previously co-founded and served as CEO of Roamer, an online subleasing platform focused on students, urban creatives and young professionals. Alexander graduated  from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as managing editor of the American Criminal Law Review’s 30th Annual Survey of White Collar Crime. He also worked as a research assistant to Paul Butler, the Albert Brick Professor in Law.

Recent publications

• Co-author, A new frontier: Enforcing money judgements on cryptocurrencies  –  Daily Journal, September 2023