“The words behind a deal are critical,” says Dennis E. Carlton, Esq., Managing Director and General Counsel for WM Daugherty & Co. and affiliates. Over the course of his legal career, Dennis has seen investments from a front row seat, having served as attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission, as Counsel and Director of Compliance at the Pacific Stock Exchange, as partner in a national law firm, and as counsel and senior officer with several national real estate investment firms and banks.

He has also served on the boards of prominent insurance brokerage and reinsurance firms and led the resolution of more than $1 billion in assets for FDIC and RTC. He gives WMD Capital Markets access to a vast resource of legal expertise. “We like going into a deal knowing the lay of the land. It gives us a high degree of confidence.”