Leon County Securities Lawyers

I am the founding partner of Kesse PLLC, a corporate law firm. Prior to founding Kesse PLLC, I worked at the biggest law firms in the country. My practice focuses on securities, capital markets, SEC reporting, emerging companies and startups, and general corporate law. I regularly advise clients on public and private securities offerings and financings, including U.S.-Canadian cross-border offerings and other foreign private issuer offerings. I assist clients with IPOs, Regulation A+ offerings, direct listings, follow-on/secondary offerings, private placements, crowdfunding, private company financings, pre-IPO counseling, SPAC formations, IPOs and business combinations (deSPACs), tender offers, emerging company and startup financings,...

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Attorney Justin N. Bryan joined the McCathern Dallas office in 2016 and his legal practice focuses on Business and Securities Litigation, but he has experience in many areas of law. Mr. Bryan represents defendants in complex multi-million dollar litigation and has also recovered millions of dollars for plaintiffs.

Mr. Bryan is a graduate of the Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock where he was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award for Advanced Legal Research and Property and was a member of Phi Delta Phi, an international legal honor society. He received his Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M University and...

Sam Smith has represented startups and small businesses with all aspects of corporate transactions and trademark issues including registration, prosecution, enforcement and licensing. He has also represented large financial institutions and investment banks in all aspects of corporate transactions including advising on entity selection and formation, capital structure, securities regulations and commercial contract drafting. He advises closely held businesses in business entity selection and formation, business financing and operations, purchasing/selling a business, and drafting and negotiating commercial contracts. He also advises individuals and entrepreneurs with the design and implementation of estate planning and succession planning strategies

John A. Price has over four decades of legal experience, including first chair trial experience on a variety of complex business and commercial litigation matters with special emphasis on the areas of antitrust and unfair/deceptive trade practices, business torts, securities fraud, intellectual property, minority shareholder, regulatory, products liability, environmental, and a wide spectrum of business disputes. He is ranked AV Preeminent with 5 out of 5 for legal ability and ethics by Martindale-Hubbell in a peer-reviewed rating. He is certified in civil litigation by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, licensed to practice law in Kansas, Texas and...

Before opening Goff Law, PLLC, Mr. Goff practiced with a prominent personal injury defense litigation firm in Dallas. In his time fighting on behalf of the biggest insurance companies in Texas, Mr. Goff learned what insurance adjusters value most: giving you as little as you deserve until they are forced to. Mr. Goff has the unique perspective of knowing how the insurance companies value your doctors, your injuries, their risk, and your future. Let us handle your past and work with you on your future.

David Siegel has helped thousands of people obtain redress through our court system. He has over 30 years of experience advising businesses and individuals in commercial litigation, fiduciary duty and partnership litigation, liability suits, mass tort actions, consumer class actions, securities litigation, and bankruptcy litigation.

David’s cross-border work includes arguing on behalf of clients located in the Philippines and Latin America, among other regions. His successes include successfully representing thousands of agricultural workers in toxic pesticide litigation; successfully representing investors in arbitration claims against their investment advisers; successfully representing wrongful death claimants in a suit against a private prison company for...

Hamp Skelton grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Princeton University in 1978 and from the University of Texas School of Law in 1981. He and his wife, Karen, have three sons, now all in their mid-20s. Hamp has tried lawsuits in Texas for more than 40 years. He began his career at Vinson & Elkins in Houston in 1981, practicing in its commercial litigation section. He moved back to to Austin in 1986, joining Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. He built a litigation section for that office, serving as partner in charge of litigation. His present...

Courtney Scobie’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts, arbitration, and federal government investigations. Her experience includes a fraud and theft case on behalf of a large technology company, a breach of fiduciary duty and legal malpractice case on behalf of a real estate investment trust, copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation cases against a leading enterprise software company, an SEC investigation and a securities class action involving alleged accounting improprieties, several CFTC investigations involving the crude oil and natural gas liquids markets, contract and insurance disputes in the energy and petrochemical industries, product liability and...

I represent plaintiffs who have been hurt. I am board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law and handle catastrophic personal injury cases, but I also practice construction, securities, and complex commercial litigation, for companies and individuals. I am a native Houstonian and attended St. Thomas High School where I currently serve on the board. I went to Harvard and graduated with high honors, magna cum laude, in 2004. At Harvard, I served as Historian of the Harvard Political Union, the College's debating society, and as Secretary of Harvard CHANCE, a group dedicated to mentoring and tutoring students from Cambridge...

Ms. Shannon A. Lang is a dedicated attorney with extensive experience in complex business and commercial litigation. Ms. Lang attended San Diego State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in both Sociology and Biology. Before attending law school, Ms. Lang earned Master’s Degree in Forensic Science from Marshall University. In 2007, Ms. Lang graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law with her Juris Doctor. Upon graduating law school, Ms. Lang worked as a law clerk for Judge Nancy Friedman Atlas in the Southern District of Texas before joining Covington & Burling. Ms. Lang honed...

As an associate attorney of Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas LTD LLP, Ryan Cook maintains an active securities arbitration and litigation practice. Mr. Cook has worked on numerous cases dealing with individual investors, high net worth and institutional investors, corporate executives, regional banks and municipal issuers.

Prior to beginning his law practice, Mr. Cook worked in the securities industry as a licensed and registered representative with a large broker/dealer. He received his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from South Texas College of Law, where he earned his degree Summa Cum Laude (with highest honor) as the graduating salutatorian. Mr. Cook...

Arnold Shokouhi is an equity owner and the Managing Partner for McCathern. Arnold currently practices in the area of commercial, director and officer liability, and employment litigation. Arnold also heads McCathern's Banking and Mortgage section, and has extensive experience in the mortgage banking industry. His section handles everything from drafting mortgage documents to dealing with state and federal compliance matters for financial institutions and service providers. Additionally, his experience handling transactional matters has given him the ability to effectively filter through the intricacies of complex commercial litigation matters. Arnold has played a critical role in the litigation of multi-million dollar...

Mr. Crawford has more than 30 years of experience in handling complex commercial litigation, including securities fraud, receiverships, oil and gas, employment, insurance and general business disputes.

Representative Matters

Mr. Crawford has successfully represented clients in a wide range of complex commercial litigation, including cases involving:
• Securities Fraud
• Oil and Gas Fraud
• Software licensing issues
• Employment disputes, including proprietary information, agreements and covenants not to compete
• Stock option agreements
• Copyright issues
• Insurance coverage disputes
• Shareholder disputes
• Partnership...

Will Stafford is Of Counsel in Crain Caton’s Corporate, Business Transactions and Tax Group. With over a decade of legal experience, Will has developed a broad corporate practice, with an emphasis on securities offerings, business transactions, and general corporate governance. He has extensive experience representing individuals, public and private companies, financial institutions and local governments in a wide variety of matters including capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, early-stage and venture capital investments, technology transactions, commercial contracts, securities regulation and compliance, corporate structuring and formation, and general corporate matters.

Will has represented corporations in the issuance of debt, equity and convertible...

Mr. Showman has handled numerous complex commercial matters and securities class actions (for both plaintiffs and defendants).  He has represented both claimants and respondents in FINRA securities arbitrations.  He has also represented clients in FINRA investigations and has conducted internal corporate investigations.  He has lectured on securities litigation at NYU and Fordham University.  Mr. Showman is also an arbitrator for FINRA customer and employee arbitrations.

With nearly 30 years of complex commercial litigation experience, Robert R. Burford has distinguished himself as an aggressive and successful attorney for his clients. Mr. Burford has handled business disputes of nearly every variety for both plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Burford has skillfully handled nearly every type of high-stakes business disputes including litigation involving fiduciary duties, securities fraud, mergers and acquisitions, Director’s and Officers’ liability, legal malpractice, oil and gas matters, partnership disputes, intellectual property disputes, theft of trade secrets, healthcare related matters and complex contractual disputes. Mr. Burford graduated from the University of Houston in 1981...

Steve Sapp has extensive experience in the representation of clients in both public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, corporate and securities reporting and compliance matters, Board of Directors representation, and mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, he represents many of his public and private corporate clients, both nationally and internationally, in the prosecution and protection of substantial technology and intellectual property portfolios, related administrative proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and disputes concerning trademark rights, domain names, and copyrights on the Internet. Due to the breadth of his experience and aptitude for client service, he also...

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Mark R. Basile started his career at Shea & Gould in New York City and throughout the course of his career has, and continues to represent small publicly traded companies in securities and corporate finance litigation in both state and federal courts around the country. Mr. Basile won a landmark decision (2021) for small public companies in the New York Court of Appeals that agreed that certain corporate funding instruments are subject to NY's criminal usury laws. Mr. Basile is also a Professor of Law & Entrepreneurship at The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in New York teaching a course that he...

My practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and arbitration. I represent clients in high-stakes, high-dollar disputes involving breach of contract, employment law, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, insurance coverage, securities disputes, class actions, and whistleblower claims. I have represented both plaintiffs and defendants before state and federal courts, and in domestic and international arbitration proceedings.

I am Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. My employment practice is limited to representation of management and high level executives. I am listed as a Best Lawyer in America 2009 in employment law (copyright 2008 by Woodward/White Inc. of Aiken, SC). I was selected as a Super Lawyer for 2004; 2007-09 by Law and Politics Magazine. I also handle commercial litigation in the areas of banking, energy and securities.

RUDY BEUTTENMULLER, born St. Louis, Missouri, December 20, 1953; admitted to bar, 1980, Texas. Also admitted to U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas; U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Texas; U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas; U.S. Tax Court. Education: Princeton University (B.A., cum laude, 1976); Duke University (J.D., with distinction, 1980). Staff Member, 1978-1979 and Articles Editor, 1979-1980, Duke Law Journal. Author: Comment, "The Goal of The New Premerger Notification Requirements: Preliminary Relief Against Anticompetitive Mergers," Duke Law Journal 249, 1979....

Experienced business and commercial litigation attorney who primarily focuses on owner-operated small businesses enterprises. I and my full service law firm serve as outside general counsel for business owners, managers and entrepreneurs. I am an experienced trial attorney located in Dallas. I practice in Federal and State courts throughout Texas and in arbitration proceedings. My practice involves enforcing and defending the rights of finance companies and banks, manufacturers, restaurants, warehouses, construction contractors, artisan/consultants, and logistics businesses. I started Roquemore Skierski PLLC to be a full-service firm whose business transactions attorneys help start-up, expansion, and dissolution of business operations. We help...

Mario Nguyen is a skilled litigator, investigator, and legal scholar. He has over 200 hours of experience trying cases in federal court, has conducted investigations with millions of dollars at stake, and teaches at one of the top 30 law schools in the nation. Mario served as a Trial Attorney in the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, an inaugural judicial law clerk to a newly appointed federal trial court judge, and an associate to a former U.S. Attorney in the criminal defense and investigations department of a major global law firm. Mario’s clients are individuals, public bodies,...

Over the course of his career, Doron Levin has represented thousands of clients in advocating for their rights. Defendants who have been the subject of Levin's efforts are among the largest international conglomerates and corporate giants.

During law school, Mr. Levin distinguished himself as a recipient of the Albert Sidney Burleson Scholarship and the Legal Writing Honors Award. He was inducted into the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity and interned for the Supreme Court of Texas.

Levin is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and is licensed by the District of Columbia Court of...

I am Michael A. Weaver, a corporate transactions, estate planning, employment, and technology attorney with a Martindale Hubble 5.0 AV Rating, and I have been practicing law for the past 30 years. In 2020, I expanded my practice areas to include Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning about five years ago and currently serve clients at Saunders, Walsh & Beard in McKinney, Texas. When it comes to estate planning, I often recommend a Living Trust over a Will for several significant reasons, depending on the estate's size and complexity. My legal career includes extensive experience as an in-house general counsel and as...

Josh has over two decades of experience guiding insurance companies and other providers of financial services through the complexities of regulatory compliance and corporate transactions. Josh has served as the U.S. general counsel for a top North American insurance and financial services provider, and also previously led non-legal operations and marketing functions at two different industry providers. He uses this extensive background to counsel clients across a vast array of legal, compliance, operations, and marketing challenges, including: Corporate / Transactional Life Insurance & Annuities Insurance Holding Company Act General Insurance Regulatory Reinsurance & Risk Management Executive Management Support Mergers & Acquisitions Distributor Contracting & Regulation Outside General Counsel In the compliance...