Our approach to M&A combines our corporate expertise with our deep understanding of regulated industries and our commercial approach. In recent years, we have advised on over 200 public and private mergers and acquisitions, with an aggregate value of more than $300 billion. Our expertise covers the wide range of M&A activity, including public acquisitions and divestitures, proxy contests and unsolicited bids and private equity transactions.
We have assisted clients in undertaking groundbreaking transactions that were the first of their kind and that shaped the landscape of today’s financial services industry.
- We crafted legal solutions that enabled interstate banking M&A and produced today’s Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase. We likewise have advised many regional, community and family-owned banks across the country on a wide range of business combinations, asset sales and other transactions.
Additionally, we work regularly with private equity investors, banks, holding companies and other entities to structure and execute both controlling and non-controlling investments in regulated financial institutions.
- These complex transactions bring together our skilled M&A lawyers and regulatory experts who negotiate the transaction agreements and secure applicable regulatory approvals. No firm has a greater breadth and depth of regulatory sophistication.
Representative Matters
We have been a leader in advising financial institution clients on mergers and acquisitions and bank investments for decades.
- Representing Financial Federal Corporation in its acquisition by People’s United Financial, Inc.
- Representing Trustmark Corporation in connection with federal law aspects of the acquisition of Republic Bancshares of Texas, Inc.
- Representing Forethought Financial Group before the OTS in the acquisition of Forethought Financial Services, Inc., and Forethought Federal Savings Bank.
- Representing a private equity investment in Northeast Bank in connection with its recapitalization.
- Representing a private equity investment in Carlile Banchares, Inc., a newly-formed bank holding company that acquired Treaty Oak Bank.
- Representing a private equity investment in Grandpoint Capital, Inc., a newly-formed bank holding company that acquired Santa Ana Business Bank.
Accolades
- Chambers USA, Corporate M&A (2010-2011)
- Scott Smith
- J. D. Weinberg
- Chambers USA, Financial Services Regulation (2011)
- Banking (Compliance): John Dugan, Mark Plotkin, and Stuart Stock
- Banking (Enforcement & Investigations): Stuart Stock and D. Jean Veta
- Best Lawyers in America (2011)
- Banking: Mark Plotkin, David Rosinus, Stuart Stock, and D. Jean Veta
- Corporate Governance and Compliance: Bruce Baird, David Bayless, Len Chazen, Philip Howard, and David Martin
- Securities: Bruce Bennett and David Martin
- Legal 500 US, M&A - National Firms - Large Deals (2010-2011)
- Scott Smith
- J. D. Weinberg
- Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Proxy Contests, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- J. D. Weinberg (appointed Member, 2009-2011)
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