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Dixie Johnson represents businesses and individuals in securities enforcement investigations and conducts internal investigations for corporate board committees and companies. As a partner on our Securities Enforcement and Regulation team and our Special Matters and Government Investigations team, Dixie has served as a team, group, and firm leader since joining King & Spalding in early 2014. Her practice before the SEC, DOJ, FINRA, PCAOB and other federal and state authorities has resulted in the government closing over forty investigations since she joined the firm.
Dixie brings her extensive experience, solid judgment, and strategic insight to selected clients, including primarily public companies and their directors and officers, financial services firms, and law firms. She is widely recognized as a legal industry leader in securities enforcement, regulatory compliance, corporate governance and crisis management.
Board committees call on Dixie to investigate accounting and disclosure-related whistle-blower allegations and look to her for guidance in times of crisis. She regularly interacts with lead directors, presiding directors, and non-executive board chairs from many of the largest companies in the world. She has served as a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel and as a member of the Lead Director Network.
Public companies and regulated entities seek Dixie’s representation in complex securities-related government investigations. C-Suite officers and other professionals look to Dixie for representation in internal and SEC or other investigations when their careers are on the line. She is a lawyer's lawyer, representing law firms and lawyers under scrutiny. The King & Spalding bench is deep and highly skilled in analyzing lessons learned and counseling clients on how to avoid problems in the future.
Chambers USA, Legal 500, Benchmark, Who’s Who, Best Lawyers and others all consistently rank Dixie as a leading lawyer, with Chambers ranking King & Spalding's Securities Enforcement practice in Band 2 Nationwide. Dixie also has served in multiple leadership roles within the American Bar Association, including as Business Law Section Chair, Chair of the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, and co-Chair of the Fellows Committee. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees for the Legal Aid Society of Washington, D.C., the Board of Advisors for the SEC Historical Society, and the American Law Institute. Before becoming a lawyer, Dixie served for six years as a public school teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
See examples of Dixie’s recent matters in the section below.
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