Charles L. Stutts practices in the firm's Business Law Department, with an emphasis on securities and banking law. As former general counsel to the Florida Comptroller's Office and the Department of Banking and Finance, he helped develop the agency's policies on banking, mortgage lending and securities regulation. Mr. Stutts also directed the agency's securities enforcement efforts and coordinated prosecutions under Florida's "antifraud" provisions with its federal counterparts including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He also helped draft revisions to Florida's banking laws in 1988 and 1989, and served on the Comptroller's Task Force on Banking Sunset. He was a registered lobbyist for the Comptroller and testified on his behalf before the Florida Legislature and the U.S. Congress.
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