Mr. LaVigne is the Chair of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Business Law Section and from 2013 to 2016 was Chair of the Securities Regulation Committee of that Section. He was the founder and first chair of the American Bar Association Subcommittee on FINRA Corporate Financing Rules and remains a member of that subcommittee.
Prior to joining Goodwin in 2010, Mr. LaVigne was Special Counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell, where he was a member of the Financial Institutions Group. Mr. LaVigne served as Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney General's Office, where he was Chief of the Real Estate Syndication Section.