{"id":6339,"date":"2018-08-08T15:57:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2018-08-08T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T20:00:56","slug":"silver-law-group-wins-1-5-million-securities-arbitration-award-for-unsuitable-private-placement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/silver-law-group-wins-1-5-million-securities-arbitration-award-for-unsuitable-private-placement-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Law Group Wins $1.5 Million Securities Arbitration Award for Unsuitable Private Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FINRA-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"FINRA-300x202\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FINRA-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FINRA-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FINRA-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FINRA-1000x674.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FINRA-178x120.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FINRA.jpg 1247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Our firm has won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finra.org\/sites\/default\/files\/aao_documents\/17-03069.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">$1.5 million award<\/a> against a Texas-based brokerage firm that sold private placements in an oil and gas business venture to our client. The award included a significant million dollars in punitive damages. Silver Law Group continues to represent other investors in failed private placements or Reg D offerings.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Our Client Loses a Significant Amount of Money in an Oil and Gas Private Placement<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>According to the FINRA statement of claim, a broker of the Texas-based brokerage firm first met with our client and convinced him to fly to Texas for the investment pitch. Our client then met with the CEO of the brokerage firm and pitched the investment to our client. The investment proceeds would allegedly by used to drill oil wells for oil production.\u00a0 The CEO of the brokerage firm promised great returns on the investment within six months. Our client was convinced and invested approximately $521,000 \u2013 almost all of his life savings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/silver-law-group-wins-1-5-million-securities-arbitration-award-for-unsuitable-private-placement-2\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Silver Law Group Wins $1.5 Million Securities Arbitration Award for Unsuitable Private Placement\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our firm has won a $1.5 million award against a Texas-based brokerage firm that sold private placements in an oil and gas business venture to our client. The award included a significant million dollars in punitive damages. Silver Law Group continues to represent other investors in failed private placements or Reg D offerings. Our Client [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[588,601,699],"tags":[1024,1023,290,1022],"class_list":["post-6339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finra-arbitration","category-oil-gas-fraud","category-private-placement","tag-mark-plummer","tag-scott-silver-texas-ep-partners-inc","tag-securities-arbitration","tag-texas-ep-partners-inc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Silver Law Group Wins $1.5 Million Securities Arbitration Award for Unsuitable Private Placement &#8212; Securities Arbitration Lawyers Blog &#8212; August 8, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our firm has won a $1.5 million award against a Texas-based brokerage firm that sold private placements in an oil and gas business venture to our client. &#8212; 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