Securities Law Consultants

Braden M. Perry is a nationally recognized White-Collar Defense Attorney and complex litigator with a reputation for navigating clients through their most challenging legal crises. A former senior trial attorney with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Mr. Perry led major investigations and prosecutions involving market manipulation, financial fraud, and regulatory violations. His government experience gives him unique insight into enforcement strategy and prosecutorial decision-making, which he leverages to defend clients facing federal and state investigations, enforcement actions, and criminal charges.

Practice Areas:

• White-Collar Defense & Government Investigations
• Regulatory Compliance & Enforcement
• Anti-Money Laundering & BSA/AML
• Securities, Commodities & Financial Markets
• Internal Investigations & Corporate Compliance Programs

As Co-Founder and Partner at Kennyhertz Perry, Mr. Perry represents individuals and companies in internal investigations, regulatory inquiries, and high-stakes litigation. He handles matters involving securities fraud, commodities and derivatives enforcement, anti-money laundering, FCPA violations, antitrust, and emerging areas such as cryptocurrency and digital asset enforcement. He has first-chaired trials in federal and state courts, defending clients against complex criminal and civil allegations with strategic precision and a deep understanding of agency priorities.

Mr. Perry serves on the Criminal Justice Act panels for the Southern District of Georgia, the District of Kansas, and the Western District of Missouri, representing indigent defendants in federal criminal cases, and has been recognized by Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America for his excellence in white-collar defense. Prior to founding Kennyhertz Perry, he was Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Vice President at a global financial services firm, overseeing broker-dealer, RIA, and alternative investment compliance.

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Attorney, Lawrence H. Jacobson received his Bachelor's degree in political science in 1964 from U.C.L.A and his Juris Doctorate in 1967 from the U.C.L.A. School of Law. While at the U.C.L.A. School of Law, Mr. Jacobson was a senior editor of the U.C.L.A. Law Review and graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif. 

Mr. Jacobson is the former Vice-President of Legal Affairs for the California Association of Realtors, legal counsel to several Boards of Realtors, California Counsel to an international real estate brokerage firm, and legal counsel to numerous mortgage brokerage firms and related real estate service providers. He is also a Past President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. He has served as a judge pro tem for the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Municipal Court Systems as well as having been an adjunct professor of law in the area of real estate secured transactions and administrative law, earning a lifetime Community College Instructor Credential in the area of Law.

Legal Practice - In his 50 years of practice, Mr. Jacobson has counseled and represented both private and publically held clients in the following:

• Selection of Business Entities
• Formation and Restructure of Corporations
• Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies
• Purchase and Sale of Business
• Succession Planning
• General Advice on Finance, Employment, Intellectual Property, Taxation, Antitrust, and Securities Laws

Lawrence Jacobson has written and lectured extensively on business, real estate and ethics related matters including having taught for the U.S.C. Broker Development Program and Graduate Realtors Institute of the California Association of Realtors, as well as having lectured for the California Continuing Education of the Bar, and is the recipient of the California Continuing Education of the Bar's 2011 "Spirit of CEB" Award.

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