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Jessica B. Magee
Partner and Co-Chair
Securities Enforcement Defense Team
Holland & Knight
Dallas, TX
Jessica Magee is a litigation attorney, co-chair of the firm’s Securities Enforcement Defense Team and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Team. Ms. Magee focuses her practice on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and other federal and state governmental investigations and enforcement actions, internal investigations, securities class actions, corporate governance and complex commercial litigation.
Ms. Magee is a seasoned trial attorney and has significant experience with SEC investigations and litigation involving alleged accounting or disclosure fraud, offering fraud, insider trading, alleged wrongdoing in connection with initial coin offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrencies, failure to register, investment adviser and broker dealer duties and conduct, and more. She also has significant experience advising clients on matters of strategic planning, regulatory compliance, disclosure, risk mitigation and matters involving corporate and shareholder rights, partnership disputes, director and officer disputes and federal receivership.
In addition, Ms. Magee represents companies, their officers and directors, and others in government investigations and enforcement actions. She also has experience representing court-appointed receivers, private equity funds in multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration matters, and a leading oil and gas exploration and production company in a multimillion-dollar negligence and breach of contract action. She also manages, defends and resolves complex business, product liability and tort litigation matters on behalf of a variety of clients. She also serves as editor of the Holland & Knight SECond Opinion’s Blog.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Magee was a senior officer with the SEC, where she led the organization’s trial unit and regional enforcement program. Her experience includes investigating, litigating and supervising matters involving public company accounting, reporting and disclosures, as well as private and public issuer accounting and offering misconduct, insider trading, cryptocurrency and cybersecurity, and matters involving individuals, officers, directors, audit firms, broker-dealers, investment advisers, financial institutions, transfer agents and private funds.
Ms. Magee also previously served as in-house general counsel for a financial services company, where she led the legal and compliance department. In this role, she advised the board and senior leadership on a wide array of legal, regulatory and corporate governance issues, and led the company’s legal efforts through numerous strategic transactions.
Shamoil T. Shipchandler
Chief Counsel
Risk & Regulatory Group
Charles Schwab & Co.
Dallas, TX
Shamoil T. Shipchandler is Chief Counsel for the Risk and Regulatory Group at Charles Schwab, where he oversees matters involving litigation and arbitration, regulation and enforcement, internal investigations, and employment law.
Before joining Schwab, Shamoil was a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Jones Day. Shamoil formerly served as a senior officer at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas.
As the Director of the SEC’s Fort Worth Regional Office, Shamoil led the enforcement and examination activities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas, a region that includes the second-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation.
Shamoil supervised matters involving public company reporting; accounting and offering fraud; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; insider trading; cybersecurity; and financial institutions, registrants, and private funds.
As a Deputy Criminal Chief with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Shamoil served as the Attorney-in-Charge of the Plano Office and the district’s Asset Forfeiture Chief. During his tenure, Shamoil obtained convictions in the areas of securities fraud, tax evasion, bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, computer sabotage, and public corruption.
Shamoil was awarded the Department of Justice’s Director’s Award for leading the prosecution of 40 defendants in the largest mortgage fraud scheme in Texas history and received the DHS Secretary’s Silver Medal for negotiating the largest corporate immigration fraud settlement in U.S. history.
As a government official and in the private sector, Shamoil has given more than 200 speeches and presentations about an extensive array of white collar, securities, cybersecurity, and ethics-related topics. He has taught courses to government officials in Malaysia, Bosnia, and Macedonia and served as a trial advocacy and ethics instructor at the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Advocacy Center. Shamoil is currently an adjunct faculty member of the SMU Dedman School of Law, where he teaches courses about White Collar Crime and Data Privacy and Cybersecurity.
Shamoil was a partner with the Bracewell law firm prior to joining the Commission, and an associate with the law firm of Covington & Burling before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Shamoil graduated from Middlebury College and Cornell Law School and clerked for Judge Roger B. Andewelt of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.