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Attorney Profiles | Chris Bebel

Mr. Bebel earned an LL.M. (Securities Regulation) from Georgetown University Law Center.  He received his J.D. from the William Mitchell College of Law, cum laude (top 5%), and obtained a B.S. from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management.

 

Mr. Bebel previously served as an attorney for the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (Division of Enforcement) and the NASD (Division of Enforcement), where he was on the subcommittee that prepared the NASD Sanction Guidelines.  For approximately seven years, Mr. Bebel prosecuted securities law offenses and other white collar crimes while working as an Assistant United States Attorney.  After leaving the U.S. Attorneys Office, District of Minnesota, Mr. Bebel continued to work on securities fraud cases after being asked to serve as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney.  The U.S. Attorneys Office, District of Minnesota, thereafter retained him as a consulting expert on securities matters. 

 

Mr. Bebel has lectured on securities law to students at approximately one-half dozen law schools and graduate degree programs, including Baylor University School of Law; Texas Tech University School of Law; William Mitchell College of Law; University of Houston School of Law; and the University of Dallas.  He has also addressed a wide array of securities issues while serving as a speaker at presentations hosted by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and the Texas State Securities Board; NASD; State Bar of Texas; U.S. Attorneys Office, Northern District of Texas; FBI Academy; South Texas College of Law; Dallas Bar Association; Houston Bar Association; and PLI (Practising Law Institute).  Mr. Bebel is a member of the South Texas College of Law Corporate Compliance Committee Advisory Board and the Council, Houston Bar Association, Securities Law Section.  He previously served on the Advisory Board to the Texas Tech University Student Managed Investment Fund.

 

                 

 

Mr. Bebel's legal interpretation and analysis has also been highlighted on numerous media outlets including:

 

ABC's World News Tonight               NBC's Nightly News Tonight                CBS' Nightly News

Fox News                                          Bloomberg Television                           CNNfn                                     CNBC                                               MSNBC                                              NBC's Today Show              CBS' The Early Show                         BBC Television                                   CBS Marketwatch

NPR Morning Edition                          NPR's All Things Considered               NPR's Marketplace

NPR's Weekend Edition                      Bloomberg Radio                                 Forbes.com                           BBC Online                                        BBC Radio                                         CBS radio                                The Street.com                                   Public Television's Nightly Business Report

             

Mr. Bebel's legal commentary and analysis has been featured in:

Time Magazine                              Wall Street Journal                       U.S. News & World Report

Fortune Magazine                           Dallas Morning News                  National Law Journal

Houston Chronicle                          Texas Lawyer                             Christian Science Monitor

USA Today                                    International Herald Tribune         Chicago Tribune

Washington Post                             Detroit Free Press                       Agence France Presse

New York Times                            American Lawyer                       National Post of Canada

Los Angeles Times                         Kiplinger's Personal Finance         Financial Times of Germany

Australian Financial Review            Montreal Gazette                         The Times of London

The Financial Times of London        Chicago Sun Times                      St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Boston Globe                                  Seattle Times                               Bloomberg News

Dow Jones Newswires                   Corporate Counsel                        Associated Press

Reuter's                                         New York Post                            New York Newsday

Orlando Sentinel                              Pittsburgh Post Gazette                San Francisco Chronicle

Minneapolis Star Tribune                 American Banker                         Legal Times

Mr. Bebel?s publications include the following:

 Mr. Bebel has been published in the following scholarly legal journals:

 

A Detailed Analysis of United States v. O'Hagan: Onward Through the Evolution of the Federal Securities Laws, 59 La. L. Rev. 1 (1998);

 

State Takeover Laws, Insider Trading, and the Interplay Between the Two: A New Perspective, 91 W. Va. L. Rev. 1001 (1989) (co-authored);

 

Why the Approach of Heckman v. Ahmanson Will Not Become the Prevailing Greenmail Viewpoint; Race to the Bottom Continues, 18 Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 1083 (1987) (named Best Article of the Year by the Texas Tech Law Review editorial staff); and

 

Effective Supervision, Investor Confidence and Capital Formation, Practicing Law Institute, Corporate Law and Practice, Securities Arbitration 2006, Vol. 2, 95 (2006) (co-authored).

 

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