Greenspoon Marder Law’s Fort Lauderdale Office Welcomes Donna Knapton

Sep 25, 2014

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – September 25, 2014 – Donna Knapton joins the Complex Litigation practice group of Greenspoon Marder Law’s Fort Lauderdale office as Senior Counsel.

Ms. Knapton’s practice focuses on class actions, consumer protection, securities and other complex business litigation involving highly regulated industries. She has extensive experience in securities matters, representing entities and individuals in investigations and enforcement proceedings by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), securities exchanges, state securities regulators, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), National Futures Association (NFA), and other federal and state agencies. She also represents entities and individuals in securities class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, FINRA arbitration, and other business litigation involving corporations, their officers and directors, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and their associated persons. In addition, Ms. Knapton counsels and assists investment advisers and broker-dealers with regulatory examinations, registration, structuring, and ongoing legal compliance with federal and state securities laws.

Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Knapton was a senior enforcement attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where she spent 10 years in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement in Washington, DC and Miami. While there, she investigated and prosecuted a diverse array of federal securities law violations, with a primary focus on accounting fraud, audit failure, market manipulation, insider trading, securities offering fraud, Ponzi schemes, hedge fund fraud, illegal touting, and investment adviser and broker-dealer fraud and rule violations.

Ms. Knapton received a LL.M. in Securities and Financial Regulation, with distinction, from the Georgetown University Law Center. She received a J.D., cum laude, from the University Of Miami School Of Law, where she was a member of both the University of Miami Law Review Editorial Board and an Associate Editor of the University of Miami Inter-American Law Review. Ms. Knapton is admitted to practice in Florida and the District of Columbia.

About Greenspoon Marder

Greenspoon Marder LLP is a full-service law firm with over 240 attorneys and more than 20 office locations across the United States. With operations from Miami to New York and from Denver to Los Angeles, our firm attracts some of the nation’s top talent in key markets and innovation hubs. Our core practice areas include Real Estate, Litigation, and Transactional Services, complemented by the capabilities of a full-service firm. Greenspoon Marder has upheld a spot on The American Lawyer’s Am Law 200 as one of the top law firms in the U.S. since 2015, and our goal is to provide exceptional client service by developing a thorough understanding of each client’s business needs and objectives in order to provide strategic, cost-effective solutions.

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