About Beth Ann Blackwood
Beth Ann Blackwood is a commercial and securities litigator with over 35 years of experience and has litigated everything from simple contract disputes to bet-the-company battles. As an AV Rated Attorney, she has a reputation for decisiveness, integrity and credibility, and offers critical strategic advice to board members, business owners and senior executives to keep them out of the courthouse if possible. She served as the Chairperson for the Texas State Securities Board, the agency overseeing broker/dealers and the sale of securities in Texas, for 13 years. Her areas of practice include complex business disputes, breach of contract, securities fraud, majority/minority shareholder oppression, real estate development and ownership disputes, lender liability, breach of fiduciary duty, partnership fraud, mortgage fraud, breach of trustee agreements and corporate governance.
- Successfully represented limited partners in removal of general partner of $300 million+ real estate fund
- Successfully represented Hunt family members in breach of fiduciary duty case against trustee and dissolved family trust
- Obtained take nothing judgment for Belmont Group and Vantage Companies in suits brought by disgruntled investors
- Successfully defended day trading company from usury claims for loans extended to traders
- Successfully negotiated loan workouts for numerous real estate and oil and gas businesses
- SPCA volunteer
- Pet therapy volunteer at THC Presbyterian Hospital
- Board member of residential HOA
- Marathon runner and half Ironman competitor
- Author
- Former Board member of Dallas City Bank
- Former Member, Board of Trustees, Southwestern College
- J.D., Baylor University School of Law
- B.A., Baylor University
English (Native)
- AV Peer Rating
- Certified Mediator State and Federal Courts
- Amazon Best Selling Author
- State Bar of Texas
- Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas
- Fifth District Court of Appeals