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Financial Services Corporate & Regulatory Team

Financial Services Corporate & Regulatory Team

Financial Services Corporate & Regulatory Team

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Overview

Our attorneys focus on financial institutions on a daily basis and work to know your business, management team, competitors, market, regulators, customers, employees, and community. With our industry-specific focus and our years in the field, we are known and respected by banks, outside counsel at other firms and regulators across the country.

Our team focuses on acquisitions and sales, as well as corporate governance, regulatory, compliance and securities matters for more than 300 financial institution clients. In addition, we have a large number of attorneys in our firm who regularly provide litigation, lending, work-out, bankruptcy, employment law, employee benefits, fintech investment, emerging payments and prepaid cards, environmental, intellectual property, tax, technology and outsourcing, fiduciary law (including personal estate planning for bankers), real estate and REITs, white collar crime and similar legal advice for our financial institution clients. We enjoy being able to say that whatever problem a banker may have, we have a lawyer who has worked on a similar problem for a banker.

Our broad experience, coupled with our innovative solutions and our long standing ties to regulators, trade associations and service providers, make us invaluable assets to our clients who seek counsel for the following types of matters, among others:

  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Sales
  • Charter Conversions and Consolidations
  • Corporate Governance
  • Securities Offerings & Reporting
  • Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
  • D&O Insurance and Risk Management
  • Financial Institutions Litigation
  • Lending
  • Holding Companies
  • Insurance & Other Financial Services
  • Labor & Employment
  • Investments in FinTech
  • Development and Licensing of FinTech
  • Emerging Payments & Prepaid Cards
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Workouts & Financial Restructuring

Our team, which includes former in-house counsel at major financial institutions, understands the variety of risk considerations involved in consumer regulatory enforcement. We work to achieve matter resolutions that meet both our clients' short term needs and broader strategic goals.

How we have helped clients

Our broad experience, coupled with our innovative solutions and our long standing ties to regulators, trade associations and service providers, make us invaluable assets to our clients who seek counsel for the following types of matters, among others:

  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Sales
  • Charter Conversions and Consolidations
  • Corporate Governance
  • Securities Offerings & Reporting
  • Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
  • D&O Insurance and Risk Management
  • Financial Institutions Litigation
  • Lending
  • Holding Companies
  • Insurance & Other Financial Services
  • Labor & Employment
  • Investments in FinTech
  • Development and Licensing of FinTech
  • Emerging Payments & Prepaid Cards
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Workouts & Financial Restructuring

How we have helped clients

Our broad experience, coupled with our innovative solutions and our long standing ties to regulators, trade associations and service providers, make us invaluable assets to our clients who seek counsel for the following types of matters, among others:

  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Sales
  • Charter Conversions and Consolidations
  • Corporate Governance
  • Securities Offerings & Reporting
  • Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
  • D&O Insurance and Risk Management
  • Financial Institutions Litigation
  • Lending
  • Holding Companies
  • Insurance & Other Financial Services
  • Labor & Employment
  • Investments in FinTech
  • Development and Licensing of FinTech
  • Emerging Payments & Prepaid Cards
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Workouts & Financial Restructuring

Our team, which includes former in-house counsel at major financial institutions, understands the variety of risk considerations involved in consumer regulatory enforcement. We work to achieve matter resolutions that meet both our clients' short term needs and broader strategic goals.

Meet The Team

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James J. McAlpin Jr.

Partner, Atlanta

+1 404 572 6630

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Meet The Team

View All Related Professionals 

James J. McAlpin Jr.

Partner, Atlanta

+1 404 572 6630

View Profile 

Meet The Team

James J. McAlpin Jr.

Partner, Atlanta

+1 404 572 6630

View Profile 

Related Practice Areas

Payment Systems 

  • Payment Systems

Areas of Focus

Community Banking Litigation 

De Novo Banking 

Going Private 

Subchapter S 

Wealth Management 

Workouts & Financial Restructuring 

  • Community Banking Litigation

  • De Novo Banking

  • Going Private

  • Subchapter S

  • Wealth Management

  • Workouts & Financial Restructuring

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