Jason Dunn is a founding Member of Perri Dunn PLLC. He represents individuals as well as privately-held and public companies with an emphasis in business transactions and commercial litigation matters.
Jason advises and represents businesses and their principals on formation, governance and operations across a variety of industries and services. His experience and expertise enables him to help clients avoid and manage dispute risk and resolution for his clients. His practice also includes prosecuting and defending claims ranging from trade secrets, patents and intellectual property, deceptive trade practices and unfair competition, securities registrations and transfers, receivership law and fraudulent transfer (“claw backs”), as well as contracts and regulatory interplay with an emphasis in the energy sector relating to oil and gas exploration and production, oilfield services and renewable energy such as windpower. As an outgrowth of living in one of the fastest growing areas of the Oklahoma City metro, he also developed expertise in zoning and property use matters both in municipal and county jurisdictions.
Jason’s accomplishments in an array of commercial litigation and appellate matters earned him recognition as one of Oklahoma’s Rising Stars by the publishers of Super Lawyers magazine. Upon graduation from law school, Jason practiced at an Am Law 200 firm for five years before returning to Oklahoma in 2009. He joined one of Oklahoma City’s largest law firms and practiced there as a partner until founding Perri Dunn in September 2019.
- Civil Litigation and Trial Practice
- Bankruptcy Law
- Business Structuring, Operation & Governance
- Contracts and Commercial Tort Litigation
- Employment Agreements, Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreements, Trade Secrets/Intellectual Property
- Oil and Natural Gas Transactions & Litigation
- Renewable Energy Transactions & Litigation
- Zoning and Property Use
- Creditor’s Rights, Bankruptcy Law
- University of Tulsa (B.S.B.A., 1998)
- University of Missouri – Columbia (J.D., 2003; Order of the Coif, Missouri Law Review)
- 2003, Missouri
- 2003, U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
- 2004, Kansas
- 2004, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas
- 2005, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- 2009, U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma
- 2009, Oklahoma
- 2010, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- The Missouri Bar
- Kansas Bar Association
- Advises and represents a rapidly growing outpatient medical service provider on business acquisitions, structuring, operations, employment issues, leasing and property management.
- Advises and represents businesses and principals on all aspects of employment agreements, severance agreements, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, trade secrets, intellectual property and related matters.
- Successfully represented a leading global renewable energy firm in federal court for the development of a wind energy project.
- Successfully appealed a state agency’s denial of funding appropriated to organizations providing support and services to blind and visually impaired Oklahomans.
- Successfully appealed and obtained a writ of mandamus against county commissioners relating to zoning and special use permits.
- Successfully defended a reinsurer on an appeal of claims for fraud and breach of contract in federal appellate court; assisted in the defense of those claims in the federal district court.
- Successfully defended a major telecommunications company on tort claims in state, federal district and federal appellate court proceedings.
- Represented an international reinsurer in an arbitration between an insurance company and group reinsurers.
- Assisted in the defense of an interstate gas pipeline on breach of contract and tort claims in various federal and state courts.
- Assisted in the defense of a regional bank in a class action proceeding, involving compliance with a federal regulatory lending program.
- Assisted in the representation of an international reinsurer in federal court proceedings on the interpretation and enforcement of an arbitration agreement.
- Assisted in the prosecution of negotiable instrument claims against a commercial borrower and its principal on behalf of a regional bank.
- Assisted in the defense of a mortgage lending company in residential lending litigation.
- Assisted in the defense of appraisers in numerous litigation matters concerning residential refinancing transactions.
- Assisted an interstate gas pipeline company in the evaluation and assumption of pending condemnation litigation concerning acquired assets.
- Super Lawyers (Rising Star)
- Listed by “Best Lawyers in America” in Commercial Litigation (2018)
