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Charlotte May

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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’s recent pro bono work includes advising Humane Rescue Alliance in its acquisition of St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center and advising Kitty of Angels, Inc. in its formation as a California 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 a Attorney Working Group Leader on the American Bar Association M&A Market Trends Subcommittee Public Target Deal Points Study
    • Served as a Study Leader for the American Bar Association’s M&A Market Trends Subcommittee Deal Points Study on 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 Five Star Bancorp on its $100 million Nasdaq initial public offering with an aggregate deal value of $121.1 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 $500 million acquisition of Access National Corporation.

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  • Credentials
    Education
    • University of California at 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
    Pro Bono
    • Advised client focused on rescue animals in Los Angeles in its formation as a California non-profit and 501(c)(3) company.
    Memberships and Affiliations
    • Co-Chair of the ABA Women in M&A Committee
    • Kitty of Angels, Inc., Board Member
    • Attorney Working Group Leader for 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
    • Law School Initiative Leader for ABA’s Women in M&A Subcommittee
    • Producer for the ABA Business Law section’s webinars for M&A
    Previous Experience
    • Judicial extern for Hon. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall, U.S. District Court, Central District of California    

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