Partner
Dallas
Tel: 1.214.969.3676
Fax: 1.214.969.5100
Email: gtmanning@jonesday.com

Profile | Experience

Related Services

• Corporate Criminal Investigations
• Securities and Shareholder Litigation & SEC Enforcement
  • SEC Investigations & Proceedings
• Trial Practice
• Antitrust & Competition Law
  • Antitrust Litigation
  • U.S. Criminal Antitrust Investigations
  • International Cartel Investigations
  • General Antitrust Counseling
• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
  • Distressed Company Litigation
• Construction
• Health Care
  • Compliance Counseling & Defense
  • Litigation/Health Care
• Financial Services

George Manning is Partner-in-Charge in Dallas. He also served that same leadership position in Atlanta for seven years prior to relocating to Dallas in 2008. In addition to his administrative duties, he maintains an active call docket. He has extensive experience in commercial and other disputes involving financial and industrial institutions as well as civil and criminal actions involving securities and antitrust laws. George has substantial experience defending civil and criminal government enforcement actions, including grand juries. His experience includes special investigations into and on behalf of corporations and boards of directors in response to potential and existing criminal and civil claims. In particular, he has conducted investigations into complicated financial transactions at financial, energy, securities, health care, and industrial institutions, which have led, in several instances, to engagements prosecuting and defending actions against directors and individual members of management alleging RICO violations, breach of fiduciary duties, and fraud. In addition, he is a seasoned trial lawyer with specific experience in U.S. and international export and customs matters, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, civil and criminal antitrust, qui tam, false claim, general business, construction, commercial, bankruptcy, and takeover and proxy litigations.

George is a frequent speaker on corporate governance, internal investigations, and securities enforcement. He has conducted board education sessions on director duties and obligations for various companies. He is listed in Georgia Super Lawyers and in Georgia Trend magazine's "Legal Elite."

George began his career in New York where he assisted in the defense of the outside directors of Franklin National Bank and participated in a series of internal investigations of public companies pursuant to the SEC's Amnesty Program prior to the implementation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In August 1978, George became an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York, Criminal Division, where he served under Robert B. Fiske Jr. and John Martin. George returned to private practice in 1982, moving to Washington in mid-1982. George joined Jones Day's Washington Office in 1985, where he represented TWA, Rhône-Poulenc, and UPM-Kymmene in the Laker civil suit and Department of Justice antitrust investigation, various SEC enforcement investigations, and other civil antitrust and securities cases and commercial matters.

Texas; Georgia; District of Columbia; New York; United States Supreme Court; U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Georgia, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, District of Columbia, and Northern District of Texas; and U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits

University of North Carolina (Phi Beta Kappa; B.A. 1970); Columbia University (J.D. 1973)

Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Division, Southern District of New York (1978-1982)