James Edward "Jim" Maloney
Recognized since 2003
Houston, Texas
Commercial Litigation
Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
Litigation - Securities
A trial lawyer, Jim Maloney began his career in 1975 by trying personal injury and products cases for the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., the Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies, Bridgestone/Firestone and the Ford Motor Company.
Beginning with T. Boone Pickens and Mesa Petroleum Company in the early 1980’s, he has represented clients in many uninvited or hostile acquisition efforts involving publicly-traded companies. More recently, he has frequently been called upon to advise and to represent special committees in connection with majority/minority transactions and interested party transactions and he routinely defends individual, derivative and class action claims against business institutions and their directors related to public and private securities transactions. He continues to both prosecute and defend against hostile acquisition attempts and represents clients before the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.
In addition, Jim has successfully tried a wide array of complex commercial disputes in a wide variety of industries, including matters related to contracts, taxation, estates, trusts, healthcare, antitrust, ERISA, non-competition agreements, tortious interference claims, employment-related issues, trademarks and trade secret disputes, and executive compensation.
In his thirty years of practice, Jim has tried well over 100 cases to jury and bench verdicts across the Nation. He has disposed of hundreds more by motion or sheer force of will.
- E-mail: jem@jamesedwardmaloney.com
- Direct Phone Number: 713-255-7250
- Phone Number: 713-255-7250
- Lawyer Page: https://www.jamesedwardmaloney.com
- The Esperson Buildings, Suite 1150
815 Walker Street
Houston, TX 77002
- Spanish
- Gender: Male
- Ethnicity: White
- Harvard University, J.D., graduated 1975
- Yale University, B.A., graduated 1972
- Texas, State Bar of Texas
- American Bar Association - Member
- Houston Bar Foundation - Fellow
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Trustee
- Texas Bar Foundation - Fellow
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
- United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
1 The Best Lawyers in America® award
- Litigation - Securities, Houston (2013)
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
- Litigation - Securities
- Civil Litigation
- Complex Litigation
- Corporate Governance
- Fiduciary Duties
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- SEC Enforcement
- Securities
- Stockholders' Suits
Best Lawyers in America, 2003-2025
- Lawyer of the Year in 2013 in Securities Litigation (Houston), by Best Lawyers
- Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters (2003-2024)
- Recognized as a "Local Litigation Star" in Texas by Benchmark Litigation (2013-2022)
Chambers & Partners USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers: Profiled as one of the leading Litigation: Securities lawyers in Texas, 2007-2017
- Profiled as one of the leading Securities Litigation Lawyers in Texas, 2007-2017, Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers
- AV Preeminent rating in Martindale-Hubbell
- Arbitration
- Corporate Governance Law
- Litigation - ERISA
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
- Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
- Mediation
- Personal Injury Litigation
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Securities Regulation
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