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Daniel Bell

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP 

F. Daniel Bell III focuses his practice in the area of securities law compliance and regulatory defense representing broker-dealers, investment advisors, banks, and financial planners in all aspects of federal and state securities compliance and defense matters, including investigations and administrative proceedings before the SEC, FINRA, and all 50 state securities commissions.

He represents national and local securities firms in multi-jurisdictional investigations and enforcement proceedings, and has successfully concluded six 50 state settlements on behalf of broker-dealer clients.

Mr. Bell has testified before both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives on issues such as regulation of tender offers, oversight of financial planners, and the budget of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He has also chaired or served on numerous multi-state committees and task forces on topics such as shareholder voting rights, the national market system, financial planners and investment advisors, commodities trading, uniformity of state securities laws, and coordination of federal and multi-state enforcement programs and surveillance.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Bell was a partner in the Raleigh office of an international law firm where his practice focused on government enforcement, broker-dealer representation, global government solutions, investment management including Hedge Funds and alternative investments, and securities enforcement.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Bell served as the North Carolina Deputy to the Secretary of State in charge of securities regulation and enforcement from 1981 to 1988.

He was responsible for oversight of the securities industry in North Carolina including regulation of securities professionals, registration of securities offerings, and the investigative and enforcement authority of the state’s securities laws.

Mr. Bell served on the Board of Directors and as President of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA).

Experience:

  • Successfully defended a securities broker in connection with FINRA action that was seeking a long-term suspension and substantial fine, which would have been career-ending. The firm instead resolved the action with a non-reportable Letter of Cautionary Action for the client.
  • Successful defense of a financial services company in an SEC investigation resulting in closure without proceeding or sanction.
  • Successfully navigated an investment manager facing charges of criminal conduct, bankruptcy, and SEC and state investigations.
  • Defended a securities broker-dealer before the State of Maryland’s Attorney General’s office against claims of fraud. The firm settled the fraud investigation claim, which saved the client’s Maryland registration, FINRA membership, and other state registrations, as well as $1.6 million in penalty demands.
  • Served as defense counsel to a New York-based securities broker-dealer before a NASAA multi-state task force in negotiating a global settlement, ultimately implemented in all states, based on allegations of manipulation of the U. S. Treasury bond auctions resulting in the client’s retention of its unrestricted license to conduct securities business in all 50 states.
  • Defended a securities broker-dealer before a state securities regulatory agency on allegations of sales practice and supervisory violations resulting in an administrative settlement providing for a state-wide customer claims resolution process and certain corrective and remedial sanctions, while avoiding criminal indictment of the client.
  • Represented a national investment banking firm before a NASAA multi-state task force investigation, negotiation and settlement with all 50 states of allegations of research analysts’ conflicts of interests.
  • Defended investor in SEC insider trading investigation and Wells submission resulting in no action and closure of the investigation.
  • Defended a national retail securities firm regarding allegations of sales practice and supervisory violations before a NASAA multi-state task force of securities regulators resulting in the design of claims process for customer dispute resolution for resolving claims of customers in all 50 signatory states.
  • Defended a money manager in a landmark SEC market timing case through the investigation, Wells submission, and negotiation of a settlement of the SEC charges.
  • Defended investment company in state administrative proceeding. Negotiated the dismissal of client from proceeding without sanction.
  • Represented national retail broker-dealer in NASAA multi-state task force negotiations and global settlement with the states regarding the sale of Auction Rate Securities.
  • Represented a New York-based retail securities firm with billions of dollars of exposure in defense of its proprietary limited partnership sales nationwide before a NASAA multi-state task force and in implementing state-by-state a global settlement providing for the client to continue to conduct unrestricted securities business in all states. Also represented a second nationally known retail securities firm regarding its limited partnership sales in the implementation of a similar global settlement in all 50 states.

Education:

  • Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, J.D. (1979)
  • East Carolina University, M.B.A. (1981)
  • University of North Carolina, B.S.B.A. (1976)

Admissions:

  • North Carolina (1980)
  • New York (2001)

Court Admissions:

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Cost

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