Congratulations to the following individuals, who have been included in LawDragon’s 2025 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers:
Jeffrey Angelovich – Securities, Antitrust & Torts Jeffrey is a partner at Nix Patterson, where he has practiced his entire career of nearly 30 years. During that time, Jeff has prosecuted actions on behalf of injured parties, consumers, Fortune 100 and 500 businesses, and local and state governments. Those actions have included catastrophic personal injury cases, defective product cases, consumer class actions, business-to business disputes, securities fraud class actions, antitrust actions, whistleblower actions and governmental recoupment actions. Jeff was a key member in the firm’s representation of the State of Texas in the Texas Tobacco Litigation. Through that action, Jeff assisted in recovering $17 billion-plus for the State.
Michael Angelovich – Whistleblower, False Claims Act, Affirmative Corporate Recovery Michael is a partner at Nix Patterson, whose Austin office he co-founded with his brother, Jeffrey, in 2007. Michael joined Nix Patterson in 1996 to work for the State of Texas Tobacco Litigation.
Zina Bash – Commercial Litigation, Public Clients, Antitrust Zina is senior partner at Keller Postman, where she founded the Public Institutions practice and helps oversee the firm’s mass actions. She is an experienced lawyer and policy advisor who has served and worked with public institutions at the highest levels of federal and state governments.
Bradley Beckworth – Securities & Energy Litigation Bradley is partner at Nix Patterson, where he has been the lead trial lawyer in some of the most important cases in recent history. Brad has recovered more than $3 billion for his clients, including a $465 million verdict in the first ever trial against the opioid industry and a $160 million verdict in one of the largest oil and gas class actions ever tried to verdict. Brad and his team were named the National Trial Team of the Year in 2020.
Craig A. Boneau – Financial Litigation Craig is a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai in the Austin office. Craig appears in federal and state courts and arbitrations across the country representing plaintiffs in professional-liability litigation, including legal and audit malpractice, financial-fraud-based litigation, insolvency disputes, and cross-border financial litigation.
Joshua J. Bruckerhoff – Financial Litigation Joshua is a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai. He appears in federal and state courts across the country representing bankruptcy trustees, offshore liquidators, and hedge funds in litigation against directors and officers, law firms, banks, auditors, and recipients of fraudulent transfers.
Keith Y. Cohan – Financial Litigation Keith is a partner in the Austin office of Reid Collins & Tsai. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including cases involving financial fraud, professional negligence, fiduciary liability, and other business torts.
Trey Duck – Commercial Litigation, Whistleblower Trey is a partner at Nix Patterson, where he focuses much of his practice on catastrophic personal injury cases. Trey was also an early member of Nix Patterson’s oil & gas disputes practice. Trey has led and litigated dozens of oil & gas cases ranging from royalty underpayment class actions to complex breach-of-contract disputes. Trey also has years of experience representing state agencies and whistleblowers across the nation in False Claims Act litigation involving healthcare, finance, banking fraud, and other subject matters.
Bryan T. Forman – Investment Fraud, Securities Litigation Bryan is the founder of Forman Law Firm and has spent the majority of his career in the brokerage industry, serving as chief executive officer and general counsel for brokerage firms that he founded. Concurrently, he gained experience in the private equity field, founding a private equity hedge fund whose strategy was private equity investments into public companies. His legal practice is focused on representing public investors and market participants in the securities industry.
Ryan Goldstein – Financial Litigation Ryan is a partner in the Austin office of Reid Collins & Tsai LLP. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including actions involving business torts, professional liability, and complex financial transactions. He has litigated and tried cases before state courts, federal courts, and arbitration tribunals across the country, in addition to representing clients in connection with confidential, pre-suit settlements. As part of his professional liability practice, Ryan has pursued legal malpractice claims (often on a confidential basis) against numerous AmLaw 100 firms involving a wide range of alleged misconduct.
Asher B. Griffin – Commercial Litigation Asher is co-managing partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Austin office, where he handles complex and bet-the-company litigation across myriad industries, representing both defendants and plaintiffs. Asher’s docket regularly includes all types of business disputes, including breach of contract, non-competition, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, usurpation of corporate opportunity and trade secret cases. Many of his cases involve private equity funds, hedge funds, and their portfolio companies.
Matthew R. Scheck – Financial Litigation, Bankruptcy Matthew is partner at Quinn Emmanuel, where he practices complex business bankruptcies, bankruptcy-related litigation, and financial litigation. He has represented companies, investment funds, liquidating trusts, statutory committees, and corporate officers and directors in high-stakes disputes. He has also advised hedge funds and other investors in connection with some of the nation’s largest bankruptcy cases, which have involved representing such clients as Peabody Energy, ResCap, RadioShack, SemGroup, Lyondell, Lehman Brothers, Dynegy, Spectrum Brands, General Motors, and Enron.
Drew Pate – Commercial Litigation Drew is a partner at Nix Patterson, where he maintains a diverse civil litigation practice with trial experience ranging from national class actions involving over 50,000 class members to individual clients’ personal injury matters. Drew has contributed to the firm’s successful resolution of cases recovering over a billion dollars for clients, including a $280 million cash settlement against BNY Mellon for alleged breach of its fiduciary duties and securities lending agreements.
William T. Reid IV – Commercial Litigation, Financial William is the senior founding partner of Reid Collins & Tsai. His work has resulted in precedent-setting case law protecting investors and holding wrongdoers accountable while obtaining billions of dollars in recoveries for his clients. He represents public companies, hedge funds, private equity funds, offshore liquidators, bankruptcy fiduciaries, SEC receivers, and individual clients, among others.
Scott D. Saldaña – Commercial Litigation, Financial Scott is a partner in the Austin office of Reid Collins & Tsai, where he represents plaintiffs in a broad array of cases involving complex commercial disputes, financial fraud, and cross-border issues. Scott regularly brings professional malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraudulent transfer claims on behalf of financial fraud victims against some of the largest institutions in the world.
Matthew R. Scheck – Financial Litigation, Bankruptcy Matthew is partner at Quinn Emmanuel, where he practices complex business bankruptcies, bankruptcy-related litigation, and financial litigation. He has represented companies, investment funds, liquidating trusts, statutory committees, and corporate officers and directors in high-stakes disputes. He has also advised hedge funds and other investors in connection with some of the nation’s largest bankruptcy cases, which have involved representing such clients as Peabody Energy, ResCap, RadioShack, SemGroup, Lyondell, Lehman Brothers, Dynegy, Spectrum Brands, General Motors, and Enron.
Gregory S. Schwegmann – Commercial Litigation, Financial Gregory is a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai. Greg regularly appears in federal and state courts and arbitrations across the country representing clients in high-stakes, complex commercial litigations, in cases involving financial fraud, securities matters, professional/fiduciary liability, and cross-border financial litigation. His clients include bankruptcy trustees, foreign liquidators, federal receivers, distressed corporations, and investors, among others.
Lisa S. Tsai – Commercial Litigation, Financial Lisa is the managing partner and co-founder of Reid Collins & Tsai. Lisa has represented plaintiffs in a wide variety of complex business disputes, including financial fraud cases, professional liability actions, legal malpractice actions, fiduciary duty litigation, intellectual property litigation, and other corporate malfeasance and business tort disputes, obtaining hundreds of millions of dollars in recoveries for her clients. Following a lengthy jury trial and bench trial, Lisa obtained a Top 50 Verdict in the United States against global investment bank Credit Suisse for fraud, which was affirmed after several rounds of appeals.
Jeremy H. Wells – Commercial Litigation, Financial & Insolvency Jeremy is a partner in the Austin office of Reid Collins & Tsai LLP. His practice focuses on complex commercial, insolvency, and qui tam litigation. He has represented plaintiffs, defendants, debtors, creditors, and relators in a variety of matters, including professional malpractice actions, contractual disputes, False Claims Act suits, and litigation issues arising from corporate insolvency proceedings.
Susan Whatley – Securities & Commercial Litigation Susan is partner at Nix Patterson, where she concentrates on securities litigation and oil and gas royalty underpayment litigation. Susan has represented institutional investors in a variety of securities class actions in which the firm has served as Lead or Co-Lead Counsel. Susan also has represented royalty owners in Oklahoma in a number of underpayment class actions against oil and gas producers.
