Alamdar Hamdani is a highly regarded trial lawyer with decades of national security and white-collar experience, including with sanctions, terrorism, fraud and a variety of other cross-border issues, who joined Bracewell following a 17-year career with the United States Department of Justice. He was most recently the Presidentially-Appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas — an office of 400 employees, including 200 federal prosecutors spread across six offices including Houston and offices along the border between Texas and Mexico.

Alamdar draws on his experience to advise companies and corporate executives in large, complex matters, stemming from government investigations and compliance matters related to sanctions, counterterrorism, public corruption, wire and bank fraud, false claims act and procurement fraud, DEI enforcement and other types of regulatory enforcement matters. He also advises clients in general civil litigation matters in both federal and state court.

As the United States Attorney, Alamdar was chosen by the Attorney General to serve as one of 14 United States Attorneys on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC), meeting regularly with the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General to help fashion DOJ-wide policy. He also chaired the AGAC’s Border and Immigration Subcommittee, primarily working to secure the borders from cartels and transnational criminal organizations. Alamdar also tapped into his deep experience in sanctions and counterterrorism matters as a member of the AGAC’s National Security and White-Collar Crime Subcommittees.

From December 2014 to December 2022, Alamdar was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Texas. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston from July 2016 until July 2022 teaching a course on national security issues Alamdar previously served as the Deputy Chief of the Counterterrorism Section with the Department of Justice, National Security Division, in Washington, DC, from September 2012 to December 2014, and was a trial attorney in that Division from January 2010 until September 2012. Prior to his government service, he had a commercial litigation practice at both a large firm and later his own firm.

Alamdar is frequently quoted in the national media and was featured in Jake Tapper’s 2025 book, Race Against Terror, as being part of the team that helped bring an Al Qaeda terrorist to justice.