Jessica Magee
Holland & Knight LLP
Jessica Magee is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Dallas office. Ms. Magee focuses her practice on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and other federal and state governmental investigations and enforcement actions, internal investigations, securities class actions, corporate governance and complex commercial litigation involving partnership and company disputes.
Ms. Magee is a seasoned trial attorney and has significant experience with SEC investigations and litigation involving alleged accounting or disclosure fraud, offering fraud, insider trading, alleged wrongdoing in connection with initial coin offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrencies, failure to register, investment adviser and broker dealer duties and conduct, and more. She also has significant experience advising clients on matters of strategic planning, regulatory compliance, disclosure, risk mitigation and matters involving corporate and shareholder rights, partnership disputes, director and officer disputes and federal receiverships.
In addition, Ms. Magee represents companies, their officers and directors, and others in government investigations and enforcement actions. She also has experience representing court-appointed receivers, private equity funds in multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration matters, and a leading oil and gas exploration and production company in a multimillion-dollar negligence and breach of contract action. She also manages, defends and resolves complex business, product liability and tort litigation matters on behalf of a variety of clients.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Magee was a senior officer with the SEC, where she led the organization's trial unit and regional enforcement program. Her experience includes investigating, litigating and supervising matters involving public company accounting, reporting and disclosures, as well as private and public issuer accounting and offering misconduct, insider trading, cryptocurrency and cybersecurity, and matters involving individuals, officers, directors, audit firms, broker-dealers, investment advisers, financial institutions, transfer agents and private funds.
