Georgia Securities Lawyers

Walter Jospin’s practice focuses on SEC and other securities regulatory enforcement matters, corporate governance, internal investigations, and SEC Whistleblower Claims.

Mr. Jospin is the former Director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served from February 2015 until January 2018. As Regional Director, he led over 110 lawyers, accountants, and compliance examiners in the office’s Enforcement and Examination programs, which cover Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina. During his three-year tenure, Mr. Jospin supervised many enforcement actions relating to financial and accounting fraud, disclosure failures, audit failures, offering frauds, Ponzi schemes, violations...

Meredith has been an associate attorney at Kaufman Law, P.C since 2013. She graduated in the top third of her class at Georgia State University's College of Law in May 2011. Before attending law school, she obtained her B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Georgia. Meredith is a member of the Young Lawyers Division of the Georgia State Bar, the American Association for Justice, Georgia Appleseed's Young Professionals Council, and the the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association among other organizations. To contact Meredith, please call Kaufman Law at 678-666-3600.

Mr. Gort specializes in providing regulatory and compliance-related services to registered investment advisers (“RIAs”). At Parker MacIntyre, Mr. Gort manages the day to day task of keeping track of regulatory deadlines for all of the firm’s RIA clients and oversees the work of other Parker MacIntyre associates. In this role, Mr. Gort routinely drafts Investment Advisory Agreements for RIAs, disclosure documents (including Form ADV Parts 1 and 2, Form U4 and point of sale disclosures), compliance manual procedures and other ancillary documents for RIAs.

Mr. Gort has accumulated experience since 2013 in creating legal solutions for problems registered investment advisers...

Pitts Carr is one of the founding partners of the nationally recognized law firm Carr & Weatherby, LLP. During his 43-year tenure as a trial attorney, Mr. Carr has become one of the most respected and experienced attorneys in the Southeast. He has been described as a tough litigator with a reputation for professionalism and high ethical standards in the courtroom. He also is known for his unequaled success rate. Mr. Carr graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Georgia, followed by a J.D. degree from Duke University Law School in 1972. He has...

Maggie Heim represents clients in complex litigation matters in both the Federal and State court systems. She has earned a reputation as a skilled advocate who is unwilling to accept less than the best result for her clients. Maggie has been recognized for excellence in the practice of law by numerous independent attorney rating services, including Super Lawyers, the Daily Report, Martindale-Hubbell, Legal Elite, and Avvo.

J. Steven Parker has extensive experience in the areas of investment adviser and broker dealer regulation, as well as securities litigation and arbitration. As a partner in the firm’s Regulatory Practice Group, representing individuals, broker-dealers, and investment advisers in regulatory and enforcement matters. Additionally, he represents broker-dealers, registered representative and others in securities litigation and arbitration matters.
Mr. Parker advises existing and start-up investment advisers, including advisers required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission or with one or more state regulatory agencies. The landscape of regulation in this area of law is constantly shifting, requiring in most instances...

Kurt Schulzke is an attorney, CPA and Certified Fraud Examiner. As a member of the Georgia State Bar since 1998, Kurt has served as counsel or expert witness in corporate, securities, tax, and whistleblower matters. With bachelors and masters degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University (1986), Kurt worked as an auditor and tax consultant at Price Waterhouse (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) before joining the Coles College of Business. At coles, as Associate Professor of Accounting and Business Law, he teaches business law, forensic accounting, international accounting, negotiation, and taxation. He earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Georgia State University...

Pratt H. Davis is an experienced trial and arbitration counsel who concentrates his practice in the areas of securities and trust litigation/arbitration, complex commercial litigation and injury claims. Mr. Davis has successfully represented individual and business clients in multi-million dollar securities cases. He has served as a court appointed receiver as well as counsel for the receiver in high-dollar complex cases brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Davis’ arbitration experience also includes the representation of brokers and investment advisers in employment-related disputes and representing brokerage firms in interpleader actions.

Mr. Davis’ practice also includes the representation of both private...

Mr. Zagorsky is a member of the Parker MacIntyre's Regulatory Practice Group, advising and representing investment advisers, broker/dealers, private investment funds and other investment industry players in various regulatory, compliance, and enforcement matters. He also has significant business and transactional practice experience, specifically in the areas of entrepreneurial private investment fund formation and growth company capital raising.

Mr. Zagorsky recently served as Director/Assistant Commissioner of the Georgia Securities Division, the chief securities regulatory official in Georgia. In that role, he managed the Registrations, Audits/Exams, and Enforcement sections of the Securities Division. He presided over evidentiary hearings, implemented rulemakings, and represented the...

Jeff Bekiares is an attorney with over ten years of experience in general corporate, capital raising and securities laws practice. He began his career at a great Atlanta law firm, practicing there for over six years before leaving large firm life to become the Co-founder, COO and General Counsel of SparkMarket, a Georgia based crowdfunding platform. He has worked with clients at a variety of stages: from start-ups, to emerging growth to exchange listed public companies. He specializes in entity formation, governance, operating and shareholders agreement, commercial contract drafting, mergers & acquisitions, capital raising and all manner of transactional...

Gerry Balboni is an experienced deal lawyer representing growth companies, investors, and buyers and sellers of growth companies. He has distinctive expertise in venture capital, private equity, acquisitions, and licensing and distribution of technology and software. Gerry brings a results-oriented approach to every engagement. He knows what works and what doesn't. Gerry graduated from the University of South Florida in 1975 with a B.A. in English, from the Graduate School of Business of Stetson University in 1977 with an MBA, and from the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama in 1984 with a J.D., cum laude....

Mrs. Klusmeyer specializes in providing legal advice and compliance support to registered investment adviser clients. During her time at Parker MacIntyre since 2016 she has provided compliance guidance to investment adviser and broker-dealer clients, assisted with various regulatory filings, drafted compliance policies and procedures, drafted agreements, helped prepare responses to SEC and state examinations, and represented clients in FINRA arbitration.

Mrs. Klusmeyer maintains familiarity and competence regarding recent developments in securities rules, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and regulations from federal and state regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Labor. She has helped clients implement...

Patrick Zichterman, an associate attorney with Parker MacIntyre’s Regulatory Practice Group, represents individuals, broker-dealers, and investment advisers in compliance, regulatory, and enforcement matters. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado in Boulder and earned a J.D. in 2015 from the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens. During both his second and third year of law school, Mr. Zichterman interned with the Enforcement Division at the Atlanta Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which provided him with valuable insight into the industry. While at UGA Law, Mr. Zichterman also served as...

J. Michael Bishop is a partner in the Atlanta firm of Smiley Bishop & Porter LLP. For over 25 years, Mike has practiced extensively in the areas of securities arbitration and litigation, representing investors with securities claims of all types and sizes. Mike and his firm have obtained numerous seven-figure arbitration awards which have included punitive damages, attorneys’ fees and costs. Many of Mr. Bishop’s clients are elderly investors who have been victims of investment and financial fraud. Mike has successfully represented clients with claims against virtually every major Wall Street firm, including: Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, UBS/PaineWebber, Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter,...