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R. Michael Underwood

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Fowler White Boggs P.A.
101 North Monroe Street, Suite 1090
Tallahassee, Florida  32302
(Leon Co.)

Telephone: 850-681-0411
Fax: 850-681-6036
http://www.fowlerwhite.com



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Practice AreasCorporate
 
EducationUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville, J.D., 1979, State University of New York at Buffalo, B.A., 1975
 
Admitted1980, Florida; U.S. District Court, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court
 
MembershipsThe Florida Bar (Member, Sections on: Administrative Law; Business Law); American Bar Association (Member and Chairman, Subcommittee on Enforcement, Committee on State Regulation of Securities, Business Law Section; Member, Federal Securities Regulation Committee).
 
BornOak Ridge, Tennessee, 1950
 
BiographyPhi Delta Phi. Associate Editor, Tennessee Law Review, 1978. Author: "The Securities Industry Standards Act: Taking the Offensive Against Securities Fraud," (with S. Cohn), Florida Bar Journal, March 1987; "The Florida Communications Fraud Act," Florida Prosecutor, November, 1987; "Securities Law for the General Practitioner," Florida Bar CLE, 1989; "Florida Takes the Lead in Regulation of 'Wrap-Fee' Accounts," Florida Securities Dealers Association Quarterly Newsletter, September 1994. Florida Public Service Commission, 1981. Deputy General Counsel, Florida Department of Banking and Finance, 1988-1990. Assistant General Counsel, 1983-1988. Chairman, Florida Comptroller's Advisory Board on Unclaimed Property, 1997-2000.
 
Reported CasesLewis v. Continental Bank Corporation, 494 U.S. 472 (1990); Delaware v. New York, 507 U.S. 490 (1993); Rousseff v. E.F. Hutton, 537 So.2d 978 (Fla. 1989).
 
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State Securities Regulators Press to Expand Jurisdiction
R. Michael Underwood, October 8, 2009
Texas Securities Commissioner Denise Voigt Crawford, incoming president of the North American Securities Administrators Association ("NASAA"), announced an ambitious agenda at NASAA's annual conference in Denver on September 15, 2009.

Regulatory Enforcement Crackdown Expected
R. Michael Underwood, April 17, 2009
Publication in March of Regulatory Notice 09-17 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") "to provide transparency into [FINRA's] enforcement process" occurs in the context of an expected regulatory crackdown.

R.E.A.L. System Snarls Florida Securities Licenses
R. Michael Underwood, March 12, 2009
The web site of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation ("OFR") explains that OFR has been implementing the Regulatory Enforcement and Licensing ("REAL") system "to streamline and improve the efficiency of its licensing and regulatory processes."


 

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