Wayne Whitaker
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Wayne served six years with the SEC in Fort Worth, Texas where he gained experience in fraud enforcement litigation, broker dealer activities and registration of securities. Upon entering private practice in 1978, he immediately began representing public companies in all areas of securities compliance, general corporate needs as well as mergers and acquisitions. Wayne has extensive experience in advising companies in their routine reporting obligations including Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, Form 8-K, and Proxies as well as matters involving their public marketplaces such as the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ. He has extensive experience in representing both the buyer and seller in merger and acquisition activities, ranging from the small private company transactions to large public transactions involving filings with both the SEC and under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. Wayne's corporate experience includes representing clients in public offerings, private venture capital financings, mezzanine and later stage financings and matters of sensitive corporate governance issues. He has a unique appreciation for issues confronting the Board of Directors, as he served on the board of an AMEX traded company and was its Chairman for a period. He advises in matters regarding both public offerings filed with the SEC and private offerings of securities. He has served as counsel to both claimants and respondents in NASD and NYSE arbitration proceedings and regularly serves on the arbitration panels.
- Master of Laws, Taxation, Southern Methodist University School of Law
- J.D., Baylor University School of Law, 1971
- BBA (Finance), Baylor University, 1971
- Tarrant County Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Admitted to Bar, Texas, 1971
- Admitted to Practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, 1978, United States Fifth
- Circuit Court of Appeals, 1983, United States District Court, Northern District of Texas, 1976
- Martindale-Hubbell Rating: AV
- Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth, Chairman and Former President
- First United Methodist Church of Bedford, Texas, Board of Trustees
- Northeast Texas Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Former President
- World Health Forum 2000, Steering Committee
