Profile

Texas Supreme Court - Briefing Attorney
The Honorable Franklin S. Spears, 1986-87

Representative Experience

Securities Litigation, Arbitration, and Enforcement

• Defense of broker/dealers, investment advisors, banks, insurance companies, and their registered persons in FINRA arbitrations and state and federal court lawsuits
• Defense of publicly traded companies and their officers and directors in federal and state court securities class actions and lawsuits
• Defense of regulatory and enforcement matters before SEC, FINRA, State Securities Board, Texas Dept. of Insurance, and Texas Attorney General

Financial Services and Lending

• Representation of banks, insurance companies, mortgage companies, and servicers, in pre-litigation strategies, workouts, co-lender issues and facility syndications, and collection litigation, including extraordinary judicial remedies such as receiverships

Business and Commercial

• Contract, partnership, business torts and fraud, SEC Receivership, and insurance regulatory litigation

Corporate and D&O

• Corporate governance, D&O fiduciary duty and indemnification, proxy disputes, and M&A litigation, including going private litigation

Constitutional

• First Amendment, open meetings/open records, procurement, eminent domain and election law