Brent A. Burns
Experience:
32 years
Brent A. Burns | Attorney
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About Brent
Brent A. Burns has represented investors and national broker-dealers in diverse matters related to litigation, and financial regulatory and employment law issues.
Investor Protection:
Mr. Burns has represented individual and institutional investors in claims involving breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, mismanagement, fraud, suitability, unauthorized trading and churning.
Recruiting Practices:
Mr. Burns has extensive experience representing both employers and employees regarding recruiting practices and litigation, specifically:
Mr. Burns has performed internal investigations of several stock loan departments, and has represented those firms and their current and former employees in FINRA Regulatory, FINRA Enforcement Division and SEC investigations.
Employment Arbitration and Litigation:
Mr. Burns has represented traders, brokers and senior managers regarding bonus disputes, severance packages, and forfeiture-for competition clauses for unvested stock.
Commercial Litigation:
Mr. Burns has also represented and advised clients in a wide variety of commercial litigation matters including:
Defending a regional broker-dealer in a securities class action;
Representing fund of funds in litigation regarding their investments;
Representing minority shareholders in a dissolution of a closely held corporation;
Prior to starting his own firm, Mr. Burns had worked at a boutique firm for the former head of litigation at PaineWebber, at a one hundred attorney firm in
Notable Cases
Mr. Burns currently represents institutional and individual investors regarding their investment in the Bear Stearns High Grade Structured Credit Strategies Hedge Fund which blew up in spectacular fashion during the summer of 2007 marking the beginning of the current world-wide financial crisis. Stillwater Capital Partners LP v. Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc., et al
Mr. Burns represents and advises investors who have suffered losses related to Bernard Madoff's confessed Ponzi scheme.
Mr. Burns represented Prudential Securities and its brokers in dozens of industry arbitrations where he defended the firm against allegations stemming from the sale of limited partnership interests invested in energy, real estate, air craft leasing, technology and other sectors.
Admission
Illinois
1997
New York
1994
New Jersey
1993
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