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SEC Trial Lawyer Joins Gray Reed as White-Collar Defense Practice Leader

After serving for nearly a decade as a trial lawyer at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth Regional Office, Chris Davis has left the public sector to lead the white-collar defense practice group at Gray Reed, the Texas law firm announced on Monday.

Davis was involved in groundbreaking cases at the SEC. He helped the regulatory agency achieve its first-ever emergency appointment of a receiver in a case stemming from a fraudulent cryptocurrency offering in the AriseBank case. And in a coordinated action with the FBI and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, he helped bring the SEC’s first-ever action against an unregistered online security-based swaps dealer, 1Broker.

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