Jackie G. Prester, a shareholder in Baker Donelson's Memphis office, has been elected a member of the Firm's board of directors. Ms. Prester was elected by Baker Donelson's shareholders to a three-year term as a member of the board.
Ms. Prester, who serves as chair of the Firm's Financial Services Transactions Group, has a practice focused on providing corporate, regulatory and securities advice to financial institutions, public company clients, broker-dealers and investment advisers. Ms. Prester has been listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers since 2012 and in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2008, and was recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2019 and 2017 Memphis Securities/Capital Markets Law "Lawyer of the Year," the 2016 Memphis Banking and Finance Law "Lawyer of the Year," and the 2016 Memphis Financial Services Regulation Law "Lawyer of the Year." In 2018, she was named by EB5 Investors Magazine as one of the "2018 Top 15 Corporate Attorneys."
A graduate of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, Ms. Prester is a Fellow of the Memphis Bar Foundation.