Mr. Fons is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Denver office and is a member of the Securities Litigation and White-Collar Defense group.

Mr. Fons’ practice concentrates on counseling companies and financial industry participants concerning compliance and corporate governance issues, representing companies and individuals in government and self-regulatory organization investigations and proceedings, and conducting internal investigations. Mr. Fons has 18 years of experience as a member of the enforcement and senior staff of the SEC. Most recently, Mr. Fons was the Director for the Central Region of the SEC with offices in Denver, Ft. Worth and Salt Lake City, and prior to that was the Director for the Southeast Region of the SEC, with offices in Miami and Atlanta. Mr. Fons started his SEC career in the Chicago office where he headed up that office’s enforcement program. In those positions, Mr. Fons was responsible for many of the SEC’s most significant cases involving market manipulation, public company financial fraud and reporting violations, auditing failures, securities brokers and mutual funds.