Financial Institutions |  | |
McAfee & Taft attorneys have extensive experience serving the unique legal needs of commercial banks, thrifts and other providers of financial services. In addition to representing clients in a wide variety of banking and corporate transaction matters, our financial institutions practices includes counseling clients on specific federal and state regulatory and compliance issues.
We regularly represent financial institutions in a variety of legal matters, including:
- New charters
- Bank mergers and acquisitions
- Purchases and sales of branches and subsidiaries
- Bank holding company formations
- Initial public offerings (IPOs)
- Subchapter S issues
- Community Reinvestment Act compliance
- Private placements of debt and equity securities
- Securities law compliance
- Privacy and security issues
- Money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance
- Enforcement
- Electronic banking and e-commerce
- Employee stock ownership plans
- Insurance and securities brokerage
- Federal and state operational regulatory matters
- Corporate governance