Biography

Sabrina A. McTopy focuses her practice on organizing businesses and representing them in a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, securities compliance matters and private equity investments. Her experience includes over 100 mergers and acquisitions of and by public and privately held-companies, including leveraged buy outs and restructurings, and representing private equity funds on the investment side. Her practice includes general representation of public companies, including periodic Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and compliance, shareholder reporting, executive compensation, and contract negotiation and documentation. Ms. McTopy also advises audit committees and boards of directors seeking independent counsel on transactional and governance matters and investigations of corporate misconduct.

Before joining Jackson Walker, Ms. McTopy was a partner in the Houston firm of Norton, Jacobs, Kuhn & McTopy, L.L.P. and a senior tax accountant with a major international accounting firm.

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Organization Membership

Ms. McTopy is a member of the American Bar Association and the Negotiated Acquisitions Committee of the ABA's Business Section, the State Bar of Texas and the Houston Bar Association. She is also the Director and Vice President - Program Chair of the Houston chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth and a member of the Houston chapter of the Women's Finance Exchange. Ms. McTopy has been selected by her peers as a fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation and is a repeating member of the College of the State Bar of Texas.

Community Involvement

Ms. McTopy serves as a member of the 2007 advisory board of Girls Inc. of Greater Houston, a city-wide youth mentorship organization for 6-to-18 year-old girls and is the chair of that organization's 2008 annual luncheon. She is also an advisory board member of The Woods Project, a wilderness education organization that connects inner-city kids with nature and science.

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Peer Recognition

Ms. McTopy has been named a "Top Lawyer" by H Texas magazine.

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Speeches / Publications

Ms. McTopy is the author of the following publications:

Links to Publications

• The Texas Business Organizations Code: The Revolution Is Here
• Attorney Duties After Sarbanes-Oxley: Does it Matter Where the Issuer is Incorporated?
• Lifting The Veil of Sarbanes-Oxley, Revelations Through December 1, 2002

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Latest News

• Jackson Walker Congratulates Its Twenty-Three 2010 "Houston Top Lawyers"
• Sabrina McTopy Chairs Energy Finance Networking Event in Houston
• Sabrina McTopy Elected Secretary of the Association for Corporate Growth - Houston Chapter
• Jackson Walker Congratulates Its Fourteen 2009 "Houston Top Lawyers"
• Sabrina McTopy Judging at 2009 Rice University Business Plan Competition

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