And this is my all time favorite lawyer from Fast Eddie's posts. A highly competent lawyer who was representing the transfer agent and the the plaintiff got every share. Looks like that was an honest lawyer.
Jeff Ansley is the head of Bell Nunnally’s White Collar Criminal and Regulatory Defense practice. Jeff served as both an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas and Enforcement Attorney for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Jeff focuses his practice on white collar criminal and regulatory matters and has represented numerous corporate and individual clients in high stakes litigation before federal courts, the SEC, and other regulators. As a former federal criminal prosecutor and enforcement attorney, he has an insider’s knowledge of the tactics and resources used by prosecutors and investigators. Jeff frequently defends clients in criminal matters involving allegations of health care fraud, securities fraud, and other alleged business crimes.
Jeff has represented targets of government health care investigations and prosecutions. His clients range from physicians and hospitals to medical organizations and suppliers. Jeff has handled matters investigated and prosecuted by the Department of Justice, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, and the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector, among others.
He also handles federal and state administrative actions instituted by securities and health care regulators, including acting as counsel for corporations and their officers and directors, physicians and physician groups, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and other professionals and organizations.
Jeff further counsels clients in securities litigation matters arising from both public and private securities offerings and acquisitions as well as secondary trading activity. He represents officers, directors, independent committees, investment bankers, accounting firms, and law firms in connection with these high-stakes securities cases.
Jeff also conducts internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients involving allegations of securities, health care, and tax fraud and trade secret theft violations, among other suspected misconduct. In addition, he develops compliance and ethics programs for corporations and other business entities. Texas Monthly and D Magazine have consistently recognized him for his white collar and regulatory defense practice.
Before entering private practice, Jeff served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Major Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. As a federal prosecutor, Jeff successfully tried and prosecuted multiple complex securities fraud cases and other complex crimes. He also led the Securities Fraud Task Force for the Northern District, coordinating the actions of a multi-agency criminal and regulatory task force. Jeff was appointed as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. While with the SEC, Jeff prosecuted a wide variety of suspected federal securities laws violations, including possible financial and accounting fraud, insider trading, offering frauds, registration violations and regulatory compliance matters.
Education
J.D., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, 1994
B.A., cum laude, Texas A&M University, 1991
