April 2, 2026
Dear Clients and Colleagues,
I am writing to share some important news that will affect how I work with you going forward. This letter includes important client legal notices, so please read to the end.
I have recently made the difficult, but exciting, decision to significantly reduce my legal practice beginning July 1, 2026. My wife, Anita, and I have volunteered to serve as missionaries for our church for 18 months, beginning in about October later this year. We have expressed our preference to serve as humanitarian service missionaries but have agreed to serve wherever and however asked. We could be assigned to any of a wide variety of missions just about anywhere in the world. I expect to have more news to share about that soon!
In making the transition from a very active, full-time law practice to a much more limited, part- time practice after July 1 and during our mission, I have tried to accommodate the needs of my clients and of the attorneys and management companies that refer client matters to me by:
- providing generous advance notice of the change,
- providing a potential “new good place” for clients to land, and
- providing ongoing support.
Advance Notice
From April 2 through June 30, 2026, I will continue to work full-time and provide clients with the same U.S. securities law and capital markets services I have provided in the past, but only on matters that can be completed on or before June 30, 2026.
This will give clients up to three months to continue working with me while they arrange for new legal representation.
And, as discussed below, I hope to assist you with some of that new legal representation!
A Potential “New Good Place” to Land
Effective April 2, 2026, I have joined Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP, a prominent California- based law firm, in their Charlottesville, Virginia and Washington, D.C. offices as Senior Counsel to the firm. My primary reason for joining Musick Peeler was to be able to offer my clients a “new good place” to land—a place where they can work with excellent lawyers whose values and practices are similar to mine—a team of Musick Peeler lawyers whom I have come to appreciate and respect both as professionals and as friends.
To be brief, I will share only a little bit with you here about Musick Peeler.
Musick Peeler is a full-service law firm with 90+ attorneys in seven offices. The firm brings more to the table for clients than I could ever bring as a solo attorney. Musick Peeler is known for, among other things, its high-quality business and M&A practices, including its U.S. cross- border practice with Mexico and Canada. By joining Musick Peeler, I bring to the firm my expertise in Canadian cross-border securities law and capital markets matters, which will complement the firm’s existing expertise in complex cross-border transactions and in securities, mining and tax law matters. I look forward to seeing how Musick Peeler incorporates my experience and know-how and builds on my past successes in U.S. Canadian cross-border matters.
Most importantly, I bring to Musick Peeler the many valuable connections and relationships I have developed with each of you. In coming days, I look forward to making introductions and exploring with you how Musick Peeler’s attorneys, paralegals and staff can be of service to you, whether now or in the future—including, perhaps, in unexpected ways.
Ongoing Support
It may help you to know that, as a Musick Peeler attorney, I will continue to be available to provide ongoing support in Canadian cross-border matters to my former Securities Law USA clients and to new clients.
From July 1, 2026 until I leave for my mission, and on a more limited basis during my mission, I will continue to be available (a) to assist former clients and new clients in engaging Musick Peeler to provide legal services, (b) to assist clients in transitioning smoothly to becoming Musick Peeler clients, and (c) perhaps most importantly, to advise and assist other Musick Peeler lawyers as they provide U.S. securities law and capital markets services to clients.
How will all of this work?
If you are a client of Securities Law USA, PLLC (“SLUSA”), SLUSA has assigned its client engagement letter with you (your “Assigned Engagement Letter”) in accordance with its terms to Musick Peeler as of April 2, 2026. As a result, Musick Peeler and I (as a Musick Peeler lawyer) will continue to be available to serve you through June 30, 2026, at which time your Assigned Engagement Letter will terminate.
Musick Peeler has accepted assignment of your Assigned Engagement Letter to allow me to continue to provide legal services to you through June 30th on the same terms as I have previously done. Nevertheless, you also are free at any time before June 30th to terminate your Assigned Engagement Letter and at any time before or after June 30th to engage directly for legal services with Musick Peeler (including with me) going forward.
You may take any of these actions by contacting Musick Peeler’s Garrett Barlow at g.barlow@musickpeeler.com or me at b.wiggins@musickpeeler.com, or feel free to call us at (202) 621-1890. (You may also reach me during the month of April at my SLUSA email address and phone numbers; and I will be assigned a direct dial number with Musick Peeler in the next few days.)
I value our relationship. It has been a great pleasure serving you, and serving with you, in some cases for many years. I hope to continue to remain connected through this new affiliation made possible by Musick Peeler.
I look forward to talking with you, answering your questions and hearing your feedback.
Thank you, and best regards.
