Representative Experience
      • Represented banks in M&A transactions, both on the buy-side and sell-side
      • Assisted in implementing many third-party risk management programs and ongoing assistance in negotiation of vendor contracts
      • Advised numerous banks on capital-raising transactions
      • Assisted clients in obtaining de novo charters
      • Counsel in connection with FDIC-assisted acquisition of bank assets
      • Assisted clients in charter conversion to new regulators
      • Assisted numerous clients with bank holding company formation and reorganization
      • Drafted numerous policies for bank clients
      • Advise banks on changes in regulations and supervisory guidance from federal regulators
      • Assist with data security and privacy programs and response related to security incidents
      • Provide comprehensive legal assistance to major financial industry trade associations, including the American Bankers Association (ABA), by responding to legal inquiries, drafting compliance manuals, reviewing training materials, and speaking at events
      • Serve as primary corporate and regulatory counsel for numerous community banks and their holding companies
      • Advised multiple banks in review of, and response to, complaints made to prudential regulators by bank customers across product lines and underlying issues