Lance Jon Kimmel

Lance Jon Kimmel is the founding and managing partner of SEC Law Firm, which represents growth companies around the globe and the regulated professionals who serve them. Mr. Kimmel’s practice focuses on public and private securities offerings, going public transactions, SEC reporting, corporate governance, representation of companies before the SEC and stock exchanges, mergers and acquisitions, and SRO compliance for investment bankers, auditors and other service providers. He handles capital raising at every level, from seed capital to initial public offerings, from reverse mergers to PIPEs, from equity credit lines to bank credit facilities. Mr. Kimmel is actively involved in alternative public offering strategies, including reverse mergers for domestic and Chinese companies in the United States, and working with private and public companies going public or dual listing internationally in the U.K., Canada and Germany.

His clients reflect the spectrum of 21st century business, from manufacturing to medical devices, from biotechnology to green technology, from financial services to the entertainment industry, from real estate to consumer goods.

As one of the most frequently quoted securities attorneys in America, Mr. Kimmel has contributed his insights to NPR Marketplace, Dow Jones, Sky Radio, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg Forum and Financier Worldwide, among other mainstream and financial broadcast and print media around the world.  Mr. Kimmel has written numerous articles and speaks often on current legal issues in the corporate finance and corporate governance arenas in the U.S., Europe and China.  He co-chairs the Growth Capital Conference in Los Angeles, serves on the Securities Regulation Committee of the American Bar Association, served as a national coordinator of the SEC’s Small Business Forum, has given testimony to the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies on reform proposals to ease the burdens of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for smaller reporting companies, and has been keynote speaker at the National Investment Bankers Association. 

SEC Law Firm has been named 2015 International Securities Law Firm of the Year (U.S.) by Corporate LiveWire in the UK and is listed in the 2015 Financier Worldwide Corporate Advisor Handbook. The firm is an approved Designated Advisor on Disclosure (DAD) for the OTCQX stock market.