Mike Lyons Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

I lead the team responsible for all litigation, arbitration, and discovery matters for HTH and its subsidiaries. I am also responsible for a broad range of regulatory matters. My litigation practice involves a wide variety of matters relating to the financial services industry, including contracts, employment, real estate, securities, intellectual property, banking, subpoenas, collections, and customer disputes. My day-to-day duties include advising our boards and senior management on… Show more I lead the team responsible for all litigation, arbitration, and discovery matters for HTH and its subsidiaries. I am also responsible for a broad range of regulatory matters. My litigation practice involves a wide variety of matters relating to the financial services industry, including contracts, employment, real estate, securities, intellectual property, banking, subpoenas, collections, and customer disputes. My day-to-day duties include advising our boards and senior management on litigation risks and strategies. I also collaborate with finance and business partners to ensure proper budgeting, reserve setting, and reporting of litigation and regulatory matters.On the regulatory side, I direct strategy and responses for investigations and enforcement matters involving state and federal regulators. I also advise compliance business partners on regulatory questions on an ongoing basis. Show less

Dallas, Texas, United States

I was the chief legal, compliance, corporate governance, and regulatory officer for VINCI Highways Mobility Solutions Inc., an international technology company in the electronic toll and fare collection space. VHMS is the technology arm of VINCI S.A. (Euronext: DG), a EUROSTOXX 50 company and a world leader in transportation, construction, and energy and its U.S., Asian, and European subsidiaries. I led a team of legal, compliance, privacy, patent, and insurance personnel operating in North… Show more I was the chief legal, compliance, corporate governance, and regulatory officer for VINCI Highways Mobility Solutions Inc., an international technology company in the electronic toll and fare collection space. VHMS is the technology arm of VINCI S.A. (Euronext: DG), a EUROSTOXX 50 company and a world leader in transportation, construction, and energy and its U.S., Asian, and European subsidiaries. I led a team of legal, compliance, privacy, patent, and insurance personnel operating in North America, Europe, and Asia. I counseled executives both upstream and downstream in the VINCI group on a broad scope of issues, including litigation, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, data privacy, cyber security, R&D, intellectual property, government contracting, employment, real estate, anti-corruption, and commercial contracting. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas, Texas

I was a senior lawyer at Hilltop Securities, a subsidiary of HTH that is a full-service broker-dealer, investment bank, and clearing firm. In this role, I provided legal support to the company’s operations, compliance, retail, clearing, information technology, public finance, and capital markets business units. This included managing all litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters. In addition, I advised senior management and the board of directors on matters involving compliance issues… Show more I was a senior lawyer at Hilltop Securities, a subsidiary of HTH that is a full-service broker-dealer, investment bank, and clearing firm. In this role, I provided legal support to the company’s operations, compliance, retail, clearing, information technology, public finance, and capital markets business units. This included managing all litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters. In addition, I advised senior management and the board of directors on matters involving compliance issues, contract negotiations and terms, written supervisory procedures and other policies, tax matters, corporate governance, disclosure issues, responses to RFPs, and employment matters. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

I served as a Trial Lawyer in the Civil Tax division of the Department of Justice, which is charged with promoting public compliance with the internal revenue laws by ensuring strict and even-handed enforcement. In that role, I represented the United States in all phases of federal civil tax litigation.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

I worked as an associate at one of the world’s top law firms. In that role, I represented clients in complex commercial litigation matters involving antitrust, patent, tax, and contract law, as well as the False Claims Act. In addition, I advised clients on regulatory matters, including pre-merger filing issues and investigations, and compliance with consumer protection laws and regulations.

Round Rock, Texas

Prior to law school, I worked in multiple roles at Dell, Inc., a worldwide leader of information technology solutions.

J.D., Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Order of the Coif, SMU Law Review Association

B.A., History