Mr. Wiggins is the founder and CEO of SecuritiesLawUSA, PC. He has many years of experience as a U.S. securities lawyer, both as an SEC staff attorney and as a private practitioner.
Mr. Wiggins assists clients with registered and exempt securities offerings, 1934 Act periodic reports and proxy statements, going public and going private transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance counseling, securities exchange listing and compliance, beneficial ownership reports, restricted stock transfers, Section 16 compliance, securities litigation support and other securities and related corporate and commercial law matters. Mr. Wiggins is the attorney in our firm who has been approved to serve as the OTCQX Principal American Liaison (PAL) for non-U.S. companies and the Designated Advisor for Disclosure (DAD) for U.S. companies.
From 1984 to 1987, Mr. Wiggins was an attorney adviser and senior branch attorney in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance in Washington, D.C., where he reviewed and processed SEC filings made by retail, chemical, mining and holding companies in the financial services industry. From 1983 to 1984 he served as a legal editor and writer for BNA’s Corporate Practice Series and Washington Memorandum (later renamed Corporate Counsel Weekly) in Washington, D.C.
In 1987 Mr. Wiggins joined the Los Angeles office of Shea & Gould, a New York based national law firm. In 1989 he joined Miller & Holguin, where he became a partner and was Chair of the firm’s Cross-Border Practice Group. In 2006, attorneys from Miller & Holguin combined with another Southern California firm to form Theodora Oringher Miller & Richman PC, where Mr. Wiggins was a senior attorney and Chair of the firm’s Cross-Border Transactional Practice Group. In 2009 Mr. Wiggins founded SecuritiesLawUSA, PC, now with offices in Los Angeles, California, and Washington, D.C.
Mr. Wiggins earned his J.D. degree in 1983 at BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, where he served as a Law Review Associate Editor, for which he received an exceptional service commendation. In 1986 he earned an LL.M. degree in Securities Regulation at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Wiggins is a member of the State Bar of California (Business Law Section), the District of Columbia Bar and the Los Angeles County Bar Association (Business & Corporations Section). He was most recently recognized in 2011 as a Southern California Super Lawyer.
Mr. Wiggins is the author of “Delaware’s D&O Liability Law,” Legal Times, Aug. 18, 1986, and “Dismissing Derivative Suits Under the Business Judgment Rule: Zapata Corp. v. Maldonado,” 1982 BYU Law Review 799.