1100 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
United States
David Stockton advises businesses in all aspects of corporate finance. He has represented numerous issuers in initial and secondary public offerings and has extensive experience in private placements of securities. Mr. Stockton’s focuses his practice on the full range of securities regulations applicable to officers, directors, and principal shareholders of public corporations, including share resale restrictions, Section 16, and insider-trading matters. He has extensive experience in the legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions, particularly those involving public companies. He has represented audit, compensation and various special committees of public company boards and has dealt with all aspects of public company corporate governance.
Mr. Stockton has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® in each year since 1995, most recently in the practice areas of Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, and Securities Regulation. He was also named the 2013 "Atlanta Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Securities/Capital Markets Law and the 2015 “Atlanta Lawyer of the Year” in the area of Securities Regulation by The Best Lawyers in America®. Mr. Stockton has been listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in Corporate Law/M&A Law each year since 2004, and was listed in band 1 in its 2013 and 2014 editions. He is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Areas of Practice | 1) Corporate Governance, 2) Mergers & Acquisitions, 3) Business & Finance, 4) Private Equity, 5) White Collar Crime & Special Investigations, 6) Securities, 7) Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances, 8) Government & Regulatory and 9) White Collar Crime & Special Investigations |
Law School | UNC School of Law (J.D., 1982) |
Education | Emory University (B.A.,1978) |
Bar Member / Association | Georgia State Bar Association |
Most recent firm | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP |
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