Justin P. Klein

Justin P. Klein is a partner in the Business and Finance Department, Practice Leader of the Securities Group, and a member of the Bank Regulation and Supervision, Investment Management, Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity, REITs, Transactional Finance, Life Sciences/Technology, and Insurance Groups. Before entering private practice, Mr. Klein spent nine years at the Securities and Exchange Commission in a variety of positions, including as assistant director of the Division of Corporation Finance.

Mr. Klein concentrates on diverse securities matters, including public and private securities offerings. He represents boards of directors and committees of public and private companies and parties in regulatory and enforcement proceedings before the SEC, state securities commissions, and securities industry self-regulatory organizations. He has served as a court-appointed trustee in SEC enforcement matters, as counsel to boards and audit committees, and as special counsel to committees of independent directors of public companies in going-private and other transactions.

Professional Activities

Philadelphia Bar Association
Past Chair, Business Law Section, Executive Committee; past Chair, Committee on Securities Regulation

National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Past Chair and member, National Arbitration and Mediation Committee

Pennsylvania Securities Commission, Attorney Advisory Committee

Recognition & Accomplishments

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, highest ranking (band one), corporate/M&A: securities; and corporate/M&A and private equity, 2003-2011

The Best Lawyers in America, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions law, and securities law, 2006-2012

Publications

Writes extensively on a wide variety of securities law issues

Speaking Engagements

Frequent speaker at securities law conferences 

George Washington University Law School (J.D. 1972, with honors)

University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1969)

District of Columbia

Maryland

Pennsylvania