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Charlotte May

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Washington +1 202 662 5732

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    Advising clients on a broad range of corporate and securities matters, Charlotte May regularly handles capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate governance, securities disclosure, and compliance issues.

    Charlotte represents a wide range of corporate clients with particular experience in the financial services and life sciences industries. She assists clients with respect to various transactional matters, including primary and secondary registered offerings, private placements, exchange offers, tender offers, mergers and acquisitions, FinTech partnerships and acquisitions and similar matters. She also advises various public companies in the preparation of SEC periodic reports, proxy statements, beneficial ownership reports, public company disclosure and on other securities law and stock exchange compliance matters. Charlotte also counsels public companies on a variety of corporate governance matters, including board and committee composition, FinTech governance and organization, environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) matters, internal and disclosure controls, insider trading and similar matters. Charlotte also serves as a co-chair of the firm’s Fintech Initiative.

    Charlotte’s recent pro bono work includes advising World Central Kitchen in connection with various contracts required to provide meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises, advising Humane Rescue Alliance in its acquisition of St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center and advising Kitty of Angels, Inc. and Medical Student Orthopedic Society, Inc. in its formation as a nonprofit and 501(c)(3) company. She is also a board member for Kitty of Angels, Inc. In addition to her work at Covington, Charlotte:

    • Acts as the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Women in M&A Subcommittee, which focuses on the participation, promotion, and retention of women in the M&A field.
    • Frequently speaks and publishes on topics in M&A for the American Bar Association and is a producer for the ABA Business Law section’s webinars for M&A.
    • Served as Chair of the American Bar Association M&A Market Trends Subcommittee 2024 Public Target Deal Points Study and as Attorney Working Group Leader on the previous study. The study is widely recognized as the gold standard for market metrics of key negotiated deal points in public target M&A deals.
    • Served as a Study Leader for the American Bar Association’s M&A Market Trends Subcommittee Deal Points Study on Carveout Transactions. The study is one of its kind for market metrics of key negotiated deal points in carveout transactions.

    Charlotte was a judicial extern for Hon. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall, U.S. District Court, Central District of California prior to joining the firm.

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    Recent capital markets transactions include:

    • Represented underwriters in Fulton Financial Corporation’s $287.5 million common stock public offering;
    • Represented Five Star Bancorp on its $100 million Nasdaq initial public offering with an aggregate deal value of $121.1 million and follow-on common stock offering with an aggregate deal value of $81.5 million;
    • Represented Insmed Incorporated in its public offerings of $402.5 million of common stock and $450 million of convertible senior notes;
    • Represented the underwriters on the Nasdaq initial public offering by Origin Bancorp, Inc. with an aggregate deal value of $142.2 million;
    • Represented the underwriters in Atlantic Union Bankshares Corporation’s $250 million public offering of subordinated notes and its $301.4 million secondary public offering of common stock;
    • Represented the underwriters in Renasant Corporation’s $200 million public offering of subordinated notes; and
    • Represented the underwriters in IBERIABANK Corporation’s $100 million public offering of depositary shares.

    Recent M&A transactions include:

    • Represented WSFS Financial Corporation in its $976 million acquisition of Bryn Mawr Trust Corporation; its $1.5 billion acquisition of Beneficial Bancorp, Inc. and its sale of five Beneficial Bank branches in New Jersey to The Bank of Princeton;
    • Represented Simmons First National Corporation in its $581 million acquisition of Spirit of Texas Bancshares, Inc.; $146.3 million acquisition of Landmark Community Bank; $131.6 Million acquisition of Triumph Bancshares, Inc.; $434 million acquisition of The Landrum Company; $214 million acquisition of Reliance Bancshares, Inc.;
    • Represented CFBanc Corporation in its merger of equals with Broadway Financial Corporation to create the largest Black-led Minority Depository Institution in the U.S. with more than $1 billion in combined assets under management and approximately $850 million in total depository institution assets;
    • Represented Veritex Holdings, Inc. in its $1 billion acquisition of Green Bancorp, Inc. and its acquisition of North Avenue Capital, LLC; and
    • Represented Atlantic Union Bankshares Corporation in its $444M Acquisition of American National and its $500 million acquisition of Access National Corporation; and
    • Represented OneMain Holdings in its $115M Acquisition of Foursight Capital from Jefferies Financial Group.

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  • Credentials
    Education
    • University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 2013
        • UCLA Entertainment Law Review, Managing Editor and Submissions Editor
    • University of San Diego, B.A., 2010
        • cum laude
    Bar Admissions
    • District of Columbia
    • California
    Accolades
    • Chambers USA, Financial Services Regulation: Financial Institutions M&A "Up and Coming" (2025)
    • Law360, Banking "Rising Star" (2024)
    Memberships and Affiliations
    • Co-Chair of the ABA Women in M&A Committee
    • Kitty of Angels, Inc., Board Member
    • Chair of ABA's M&A Market Trends Subcommittee Public Target Deal Points Study
    • Study Leader for ABA’s M&A Market Trends Subcommittee Deal Points Study on Carveout Transactions
    Previous Experience
    • Judicial extern for Hon. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall, U.S. District Court, Central District of California    

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