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Shareholder Investment Fraud Lawsuits, Minority
Shareholder Investment Fraud Lawsuits, Accredited Investor
Investment Fraud Lawsuits, Shareholder Suppression Lawsuits,
and Business
Misrepresentation Lawsuits
by Texas Shareholder Investment Fraud Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Business
fraud and negligent misrepresentation cost investors,
shareholders, and businesses
and individuals Billions of Dollars each year.
Shareholder investment fraud lawsuits, minority shareholder
lawsuits, shareholder suppression lawsuits, and other
business misrepresentation and fraud lawsuits allow
investors and shareholders to seek back large sums of money
that have been wrongfully taken from them.
If you have
a questions about a own a
shareholder investment fraud lawsuit, minority shareholder
lawsuit, shareholder suppression lawsuit, and other business
misrepresentation and fraud lawsuit, feel free to submit an
inquiry or
send an e-mail to
Texas Shareholder Investment Fraud lawyer Jason Coomer. He
handles Shareholder Investment Fraud Lawsuits and other Business
Fraud Lawsuits.
Shareholder Investment Fraud Lawsuits, Minority
Shareholder Investment Fraud Lawsuits, Accredited Investor
Investment Fraud Lawsuits, Shareholder Suppression Lawsuits,
and Business
Misrepresentation Lawsuits
Since the 1980s,
the deregulation of investment markets and
decreased SEC enforcement, have come large investor fraud schemes
that have fraudulently taken Billions of dollars from
consumer and business investors. Many businesses have
set up elaborate investment scams that have taken advantage
of high end investors, accredited investors, business
investors, and individual investors.
During this era of deregulation many safe
guards were removed, but even more rules and safe guards
were not adhered to when these fraudulent businesses lured
investors into fraudulent and risky investments.
Understanding SEC rules on what should have been disclosed
during investment negotiations as well as who may be a
potential defendant for failing to properly disclose
necessary information or intentionally misleading investors
about an investment are crucial in determining if a
shareholder or investor has a viable
shareholder investment fraud lawsuit, minority shareholder
lawsuit, shareholder suppression lawsuit, or other business
misrepresentation and fraud lawsuit.
Further, in determining who is a viable
defendant for a potential
shareholder investment fraud lawsuit, minority shareholder
lawsuit, shareholder suppression lawsuit, or other business
misrepresentation and fraud lawsuit, it is important
to understand the fiduciary duties owed by corporate
officers, the board of directors, investment firms, brokers, financial
planners, real estate professionals, lawyers, and other
business professionals. Understanding these duties can
often help determine if there is a viable party to seek
compensation from after a large investment was lost or
stolen.
Shareholder
Suppression Lawsuits, Corporate Malfeasance
Lawsuits, Breach of Fiduciary Duty Lawsuits, and
Shareholder Actions Lawsuits
Unfortunately, majority shareholders
sometimes wrongfully and fraudulently use their controlling
interest in a company for their own benefit at the expense
of minority shareholders. When a majority shareholder
uses corporate malfeasance and breach of fiduciary duties,
the minority shareholder may have a viable shareholder
suppression lawsuit against the majority shareholders.
In any Shareholder Suppression Lawsuit,
Corporate Malfeasance Lawsuit, or Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Lawsuit, it is important to understand the rights, fiduciary
duties, and responsibilities of the majority shareholders,
board of directors, managing partners, corporate officers,
corporate counsel, chief financial officers, and managers.
It is also important to obtain as much evidence of the
malfeasance, self dealing, fraud against shareholders,
wrongful suppression, embezzlement, or other bad acts as
possible prior to the start of litigation. In many of
these cases, once litigation has begun, obtaining evidence
of the unlawful and bad acts are difficult and heated
battles as many documents begin to disappear and proving
spoliation becomes a key issue. The term
spoliation broadly refers to the intentional, reckless, or
negligent destruction, loss, material alteration or
obstruction of evidence that is relevant to litigation.
Texas Negligent Misrepresentation Lawsuits and
Texas Fraudulent Misrepresentation Lawsuits
Texas has business tort laws against both
fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation that can be
brought against businesses and individuals that make
misrepresentations that cause significant damages.
Under Texas negligent misrepresentation law, a business or individual
"who, in the course of his business, profession or
employment, or in any transaction in which he has a
pecuniary interest, supplies false information for the
guidance of others in their business transactions, is
subject to liability for pecuniary loss caused to them by
their justifiable reliance upon the information, if he fails
to exercise reasonable care or competence in obtaining or
communicating the information." described by the
Restatement (Second) of Torts Sec. 522. See Federal Land
Bank Ass’n of Tyler v. Sloane, 825 S.W.2d 439, 442 (Tex.
1991).
In moving forward on a Texas Fraudulent
or Negligent Misrepresentation Lawsuit against a
corporation, partnership, limited liability company,
professional corporation, individual or other business, it
is important to have an experienced business litigation
lawyer or business litigation team that is able to review
and prosecute your Texas Misrepresentation Lawsuit.
Accredited Investor Fraud Lawsuits, Federal
Investment Fraud Lawsuits, Texas Investment Fraud Lawsuits,
Shareholder Investor Lawsuits, and Business
Misrepresentation Lawsuits
Accredited Investors are commonly the
targets of investment fraud schemes. This is because
under the Securities Act of 1933, a company that offers or
sells its securities must register the securities with the
SEC or find an exemption from the registration requirements.
The Act provides companies with a number of exemptions. For
some of the exemptions, such as rules 505 and 506 of
Regulation D, a company may sell its securities to what are
known as "accredited investors."
The federal securities laws define the
term accredited investor in Rule 501 of Regulation D as:
1. a bank, insurance company,
registered investment company, business development
company, or small business investment company;
2. an employee benefit plan,
within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act, if a bank, insurance company, or
registered investment adviser makes the investment
decisions, or if the plan has total assets in excess
of $5 million;
3. a charitable organization,
corporation, or partnership with assets exceeding $5
million;
4. a director, executive officer,
or general partner of the company selling the
securities;
5. a business in which all the
equity owners are accredited investors;
6. a natural person who has
individual net worth, or joint net worth with the
person's spouse, that exceeds $1 million at the time
of the purchase;
7. a natural person with income
exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent
years or joint income with a spouse exceeding
$300,000 for those years and a reasonable
expectation of the same income level in the current
year; or
8. a trust with assets in excess
of $5 million, not formed to acquire the securities
offered, whose purchases a sophisticated person
makes.
By targeting Accredited Investors, some
companies and their lawyers are able to exempt themselves
from disclosure rules. When investing as an accredited
investor, it is often a good idea to have an attorney assist
you prior to making a substantial investment.
Additionally, if you have already made a substantial
investment and suspect foul play, it is important to make
sure that you are aware of your rights and how to seek
information on your investment.
Texas Corporate Malfeasance
Lawsuits, Texas Breach of Fiduciary Duty Lawsuits, and Texas
Shareholder Actions Lawsuits
Texas
business fraud Attorney, Jason Coomer helps investors and business owners
that have lost significant amounts of money through wrongful acts of
fraudulent
businesses, incompetent or dishonest majority shareholders,
and negligent or fraudulent corporate officers.
He reviews corporate documents including
accounting records, contracts, e-mail correspondence, and
accounting records, to
determine if corporate malfeasance has occurred.
As a Texas Business Fraud litigation attorney, he
has handled
commercial litigation claims between former business investors
and shareholders
battling for stock, patents, trademarks, copyrights, web sites,
domains, buildings, customer lists, and other business
assets. He is familiar with negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, Texas State Courts, and
Federal Courts. Austin
Texas
Business Fraud Lawyer, Jason Coomer is an experienced business
litigation attorney that handles business torts, business
fraud lawsuits, theft of trade secrets, unfair business actions,
shareholder actions,
commercial real estate
law, computer law, and
other business litigation.
Unfair Business Competition Actions
Unfair
business competition
actions arise when a business uses unfair business practices
to damage another business or put them out of business.
Examples of unfair business competition occur when a
competing business intentionally steals trade secrets,
releases false press releases, uses short term predatory
pricing, demands exclusive contracts from suppliers, forces
lenders to call in loans, steals business, or spreads false
information in the business community to damage another
business or put the business out of business. Because
of the size of many small business, losing a major contract,
having a supplier stop providing supplies, having a lender
call in a loans, or one false press release can cause
significant damage and even bankruptcy for the small
business.
If you are a
Texas business owner that has been damaged through illegal
actions of other businesses and have suffered a significant
loss of revenue or profits, please submit an
inquiry or
send an e-mail to
Austin Texas business lawyer Jason Coomer.
He works with Texas Business Owners to recover losses caused
by unfair business competition.
Shareholder Investment Fraud Lawyer, Minority
Shareholder Investment Fraud Lawyer, Accredited Investor
Investment Fraud Lawyer, Shareholder Suppression Lawyer,
Texas Business Fraud Litigation Lawyer, Texas
Business Fraud Lawyer, and Texas Business Fraud Litigation
Teams
Austin Texas Shareholder and Investment Fraud Lawyer Jason Coomer frequently works with other
Shareholder and Investment Fraud Business Litigation Lawyers across Texas
and the United States
including Houston Business Lawyers, Dallas
Business Lawyers, San Antonio Business
Lawyers, and other Austin Business Lawyers to
provide high end professional legal services at reasonable
prices. He understands that many Texas businesses have
locations throughout Texas and the United States and may require good
shareholder
business litigation lawyers in different locations throughout the
state and the United States.
Texas Shareholder Investment Fraud lawyer, Jason S. Coomer,
is an experienced and aggressive commercial fraud litigation
attorney that helps investors and
business owners protect and reclaim their assets from
businesses and individuals that have committed fraud,
negligent misrepresentation, deceptive business acts, unfair
corporate competition, and other wrongful actions. He
works with individuals and businesses that have suffered
significant damages from these wrongful acts to obtain evidence of the
fraud, negligence, or other business tort; calculate the
damages that have been suffered and what can be sought under
the law from the wrongdoers; and prosecutes business tort
claims through the court system and arbitration to obtain compensation for damages
that were suffered.
If you need an Austin Texas Shareholder Investment Fraud Lawyer or a Texas
Minority Shareholder Business Fraud Litigation Attorney to advise you on a
shareholder suppression lawsuit, minority shareholder
lawsuits, accredited investor lawsuit, business fraud lawsuit, negligent misrepresentation lawsuit,
breach of contract lawsuit, breach of fiduciary duty
lawsuit, unfair business
competition action, or other business litigation dispute,
contact Austin Texas
Minority Shareholder Investment Fraud :awyer Jason Coomer.
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