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Community Banking
Community banks take pride in offering personalized and friendly service to their customers—the individualized service that is not always provided by large national financial institutions. Waller Lansden provides this same personal service to our community banking clients. We get to know our clients, so we are able to develop long-term relationships and gain a better understanding of their business goals, the communities they serve and the challenges they face. We have a long history of assisting community banks throughout the Southeast and Midsouth regions—from startups to multi-billion dollar financial holding companies.
Our services cover a wide range of areas critical to the stability and long-term success of community banks, including:
- SEC reporting and compliance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Corporate governance and anti-takeover defenses
- State and federal regulatory matters
- Financial services litigation
- Initial and follow-on stock offerings
- Trust preferred offerings
- Captive REIT formation and operations
- Branch applications
- Antitrust
- Civil and class action litigation defense
- Bond issuances
- Intellectual property and software licensing
- Employment matters, employee benefits and executive compensation
- Creditors’ rights and foreclosure actions
- Trusts and estates
- Insurance, securities, brokerage and other financial services
- Electronic payment processing
- Tax
- Real estate
- Internal and governmental investigations and examinations
Representative Experience
- Represented community bank and bank holding company clients in the acquisition of bank holding companies, banks, branches and insurance agencies with assets ranging from $135 million to more than $3 billion.
- Currently advise community bank holding companies with more than $14.9 billion of assets on SEC reporting, securities and corporate governance matters.
- Represented community banks in connection with the issuance of more than $175 million of trust preferred securities.
- Assisted community banks in the formation of private REITs, including the creation of investment subsidiaries and the offering of preferred stock.
- Advised a community bank holding company in implementing anti-takeover defenses, responding to shareholder proposals and successfully defending against a proxy fight.
- Assisted a community bank in various internal investigations in connection with Sarbanes-Oxley internal control compliance.
- Prepared acquisition-related filings required by federal and state regulatory agencies—including the Federal Reserve, FDIC, OCC, OTS and various state regulatory agencies.
- Represented a national bank in its conversion to a Tennessee state-chartered bank.
- Successfully defended a community bank against a claim of breach of fiduciary responsibility involving the alleged misuse of a power of attorney.
- Successfully represented a community bank against a claimed breach of title warranties allegedly given at a foreclosure sale.
- Successfully defended a community bank against charges of breach of contract, fraud and civil conspiracy for choosing not to make a loan to a residential real estate development partnership.
- Assisted a community bank in obtaining complete satisfaction of a significant judgment using post-judgment remedies.
- Successfully defended a regional bank against charges of lender liability in a nine-day bench trial held in United States District Court.
- Successfully negotiated with the Department of Justice regarding competitive impact to permit a branch acquisition to close.
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