Defendant
1 case as defendant.
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Hilltop Securities Inc. (doing business as HilltopSecurities) is a Dallas, Texas–based registered broker-dealer and registered investment adviser. It is headquartered at 717 N. Harwood Street, Dallas. The firm traces its roots to First Southwest Company, founded in 1946, and the HilltopSecurities name dates to January 2016, when parent Hilltop Holdings Inc. combined First Southwest with Southwest Securities Inc. HilltopSecurities is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hilltop Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HTH), a Texas-based financial holding company. Wikipedia reports roughly 790 employees as of December 2024; the firm's own fact sheet cites approximately 1,000. Parent Hilltop Holdings reported consolidated revenue of about $1.19 billion for 2024.
Products and services. HilltopSecurities is a full-service municipal investment bank and wealth advisory firm serving public entities, institutional investors, housing finance agencies, broker-dealers, and individual investors. Its stated focus areas are public finance and municipal advisory, capital markets (sales, trading, and underwriting of taxable and tax-exempt fixed income), structured finance, retail brokerage and wealth management, clearing services, and securities lending. It operates alongside affiliates including Momentum Independent Network, Hilltop Securities Asset Management, PlainsCapital Bank, and PrimeLending.
Litigation posture. The tracked data show 1 case, all as defendant, 0 as plaintiff, which is the classic signature of an operating company being attacked rather than an entity asserting patents. This is consistent with HilltopSecurities being a broker-dealer with no patent-assertion activity.
Notable case. Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Hilltop Securities Inc. (N.D. Tex., filed 2025-02-25), in which HilltopSecurities is the defendant. Cedar Lane Technologies is a British Columbia–based non-practicing entity that acquires patents and has filed hundreds of infringement suits, frequently against financial institutions and technology companies, primarily in Texas venues; Unified Patents and Stanford's NPE database both classify it as a patent assertion entity. The single case here reflects that pattern rather than any two-way patent dispute by HilltopSecurities.
Sources: HilltopSecurities.com press releases and fact sheet; Hilltop Holdings 2024 Form 10-K; Wikipedia; Unified Patents and Stanford NPE litigation databases.
Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. sued Hilltop Securities Inc in N.D. Tex. asserting US 8,577,782. The case was dismissed with prejudice by stipulation and closed 2025-06-12.