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Mr. Stock is an Officer in the Corporate Practice Group. Mr. Stock represents primarily privately held companies and provides assistance in virtually all areas of general business concern, including corporate structuring and governance issues, financing arrangements, successor planning, and employee issues. He is active in merger and acquisition work for both local and national companies. He also advises clients in the area of customs law and has performed work for a number of financial institutions and charitable organizations – both private and public foundations.
In September 1991, Mr. Stock was named one of five National Advisory Directors of the American Bankers Association Law School which was held annually in Washington, D.C.
In the past 15 years, Mr. Stock has spent a considerable amount of time representing various types of communications entities and other utilities, including telephone companies (both LECs and C-LECs), cable television companies, radio station operators, Internet service providers, and a natural gas utility. These representations have included communication equipment acquisition and financing, fiber optic installations and leases, IRUs, pole agreements, municipal franchises, satellite dish installations, tower sites, Public Service Commission representation, and related matters. His representation has also included negotiation and documentation for the purchase or lease of large communication networks for national entities. Additionally, Mr. Stock advises clients on privacy issues such as internal and external communication policies and data retention and destruction policies.
Mr. Stock has been an active Board member of a number of community groups and is currently serving as one of the two Missouri Bar appointees to the Commission on the Retirement, Removal and Discipline of Judges.
Education
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B.S.B.A., Washington University, 1962
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J.D., Washington University, 1964
Practice Group
Areas of Practice
Memberships
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Missouri Bar, (Chairman Property Law Committee 1986 and 1987, Client Security Fund Committee 1994 – Chairman, 1999)
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American Bar Association,(Member – Section of Business Law, Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, and Section of Public Utilities, Communications and Transportation Law); Forum on Franchising
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St. Louis County Bar Association, (President 1978)
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Federal Communications Bar Association
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Commercial Arbitrator - American Arbitration Association
State Bars
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