Jared Perez concentrates his practice on business and commercial litigation with a focus on financial services and securities matters, including securities fraud litigation, SEC and FINRA investigations, shareholder derivative litigation, and federal equity receiverships. Jared has represented receivers appointed by state and federal courts at the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Florida Office of Financial Regulation, and the Office of the Florida Attorney General, including the following matters:

Jared has also represented companies and/or individuals in “business divorce” cases – i.e., disputes or litigation among partners or shareholders of closely-held entities. Such cases require experience and special attention because the parties have often worked with each other for many years or founded a company together, which can raise complicated factual and legal issues regarding invested capital, management authority, and distribution of profits.

For example, Jared represented the Special Litigation Committee appointed in Taneja v. Saraiya, 290 So. 3d 602 (Fla. 2d DCA 2020). The Committee was asked to determine whether a shareholder derivative action should proceed in connection with a failed real estate development but ultimately determined the action was not in the best interests of the company. Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial judge and the Committee, concluding, “Quite simply, our record reflects a textbook example of how a SLC should proceed.” Id.

Before founding Jared J. Perez P.A. in 2022, Jared was a shareholder at Guerra King P.A. (f/k/a Wiand Guerra King P.A.) for more than a decade and an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in New York, NY. Jared is a Tampa native and graduated from Florida State University, cum laude, in 2002. He received his law degree in 2005 from Columbia Law School. At Columbia, Jared served as the Managing Editor of the Science & Technology Law Review. He also interned with the Rackets Bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the Hon. Robert Patterson, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the Hon. Sonia Sotomayor, then of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and, presently, a member of the United States Supreme Court.

Jared J. Perez P.A. - Clearwater, Florida - jared.perez@jaredperezlaw.com