Rusty N. LaForge has joined McAfee & Taft, Oklahoma’s largest law firm, as a corporate transactional attorney whose practice is primarily concentrated on regulatory and transactional matters affecting banks, bank holding companies and other financial firms.
As a part of his practice, LaForge represents both buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions and represents issuers in public and private securities offerings, including initial public offerings. Additionally, he assists clients with enforcement matters involving financial institutions, chartering state and national banks and organization of bank holding companies.
LaForge’s career experience includes serving as director of investor relations for a large publicly-traded financial services holding company and as an associate in the financial services section of the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani. Prior to attending law school, LaForge also served as director of finance for the Office of Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating.
The Chickasha native earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Oklahoma State University in 1998 and graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2002. While in law school, he served as a Carl Albert Executive Fellow with the Oklahoma Department of Securities and as a judicial extern for U.S. District Judge Tim Leonard in the Western District of Oklahoma.
LaForge is a certified public accountant and a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, State Bar of Texas and American Bar Association.
About McAfee & TaftMcAfee & Taft is one of the largest firms in the region, serving clients nationally and internationally in the areas of aviation, business law, corporate and securities, employee benefits, entertainment law, environmental law, healthcare, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, oil and gas, real estate and tax and family wealth. The firm employs nearly 300 Oklahomans, including nearly 145 attorneys, with offices in both Tulsa and Oklahoma City.