Mauricio Beugelmans

Mauricio Beugelmans is a Partner at HBA. Mr. Beugelmans represents financial services firms and individuals in the areas of securities litigation and arbitration, employment and regulatory proceedings.

Prior to returning to private practice, Mr. Beugelmans served as an Executive Director and Compliance Counsel for Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated's Global Wealth Management Group in New York. Mr. Beugelmans has also served as an Executive Director/Vice President and Supervising Attorney in Morgan Stanley's Litigation Groups in San Francisco and New York. As a litigation attorney with Morgan Stanley, Mr. Beugelmans supervised a team of trial lawyers and numerous outside counsel, in addition to handling hundreds of internal investigations and securities litigations, arbitrations, and regulatory matters across the country.

Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Beugelmans served as a Senior Associate at Steefel, Levitt & Weiss in San Francisco where he represented numerous national broker-dealers in securities litigation and arbitration matters. Mr. Beugelmans began his legal career in 1999 as Corporate Counsel at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.'s headquarters in San Francisco.

Mr. Beugelmans is admitted to practice in New York, California, and the District of Columbia.

Education

Golden Gate University School of Law, J.D., 1998

University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A., 1995

Professional Activities

Member of the SIFMA Compliance and Legal Division.

Member of the New York City Bar Association, Arbitration Committee.

Member of the American Bar Association, Securities Litigation Committee and SRO Committee.