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Darryl P. Rains is a Co-Chair of Morrison & Foerster's Securities Litigation Group. Mr. Rains has successfully tried cases to verdict in federal and state courts and before the National Association of Securities Dealers, the New York Stock Exchange, and the American Arbitration Association. He has been selected as one of The Best Lawyers in America for commercial litigation and a Northern California Super Lawyer for securities litigation. Mr. Rains is a regular commentator on securities laws issues. He has appeared on CNN and has been quoted in The New York Times, The California Lawyer, Fortune Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Financial Times of London, The San Jose Mercury News, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Business Times, The Deseret News, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Ventura County Star, The National Law Journal, The Recorder, The Daily Journal, The New York Law Journal, Internal Auditor Magazine, CFO.com, Private Equity Week, Venture Capital Journal, RealCorporateLawyer.com and Compliance Week. Mr. Rains was also recently featured on the Forbes.com CEO Chat and was a speaker to the Association of Corporate Counsel.
Robert M. Mattson, Jr. is a Co-Chair of Morrison & Foerster's Public Companies and Securities Group. Mr. Mattson has served as the Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, the Chairman of the Corporations, Banking and Business Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and the Chairman of the Corporations Committee of the State Bar of California. He is the co-editor of California Corporate Practice and Forms: The Morrison & Foerster Manual published by Data Trace Publishing. He is also the author of the chapter dealing with the 1934 Act compliance in Gadsby's Business Organizations: Securities Regulation treatise, published by Matthew Bender, and is the co-author of chapters concerning the application of the 1933 Act. Mr. Mattson spends a considerable amount of time each year as a lecturer at PLI, CEB, ALI-ABA, and other continuing legal education courses, as well as seminars and conferences sponsored by such organizations as The SEC Institute. Brandon C. Parris is a Corporate Finance Partner at Morrison & Foerster. Mr. Parris received his B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California at Davis in 1994 and his J.D. degree from the University of California at Davis in 1998 where he served as Senior Notes and Comments Editor of the University of California, Davis Law Review.
Brandon C. Parris is a Corporate Finance Partner at Morrison & Foerster. Mr. Parris received his B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California at Davis in 1994 and his J.D. degree from the University of California at Davis in 1998 where he served as Senior Notes and Comments Editor of the University of California, Davis Law Review.
Andrew D. Thorpe is a Corporate Finance Associate at Morrison & Foerster. From January 2001 to April 2005, Mr. Thorpe served as Special Counsel, Office of Rulemaking in the Division of Corporation Finance of the SEC. He has extensive experience and knowledge in the SEC's regulation of public companies. While in the Office of Rulemaking, Mr. Thorpe played a significant role in drafting many of the regulations emanating from the Division, including those mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
