Regulatory and Compliance Services

Formed numerous subsidiaries for institutions to expand financially related activities such as mortgage banking, insurance agency services, securities brokerage, real estate investment trusts (REITs), captive insurance agencies, troubled debt entities, leasing companies, factoring business, finance companies, data processing service companies, and financial and regulatory consulting companies.

Represented banking client involved in FDIC receivership situations including representing loan participants where there is disagreement when the FDIC is acting as the servicing or a participating bank, purchasing assets from the FDIC, representing borrowers in settling obligations to the FDIC, and bidding on acquisitions of failed banks.

Represented banking client after it discovered fraudulent action by both insiders and borrowers. Representation included handling related regulatory issues, filing a lawsuit against the partner involved in the fraud, handling a collections matter related to a loan customer who had filed bankruptcy and handling a stock offering.

Represented public company banking client, assisting it in a "going private" transaction to de-register from the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Represented over 25 financial institutions nationwide in seeking government investments through the Troubled Asset Recovery Program (TARP) and the Small Business Lending fund (SBLF). 

Negotiated the share exchange roll-up transaction involving multiple trust companies and registered investment advisers and assisted client with regulatory applications involving multiple regulatory agencies.

Represented investment banking client, assisting it in preparing a framework/protocol for providing investment banking services. 

Negotiates numerous cease and desist and consent orders, memorandums of understanding, board resolutions, notices of charges, and other formal and informal agreements and examination results between financial institution clients and state and federal regulatory authorities, including filing appeals with the agencies' Ombudsman's Offices.

Represented bank, assisting it in complying with a formal enforcement action, complying with a Prompt Corrective Action directive, selling loans, division and branch assets, reorganizing holding company debt, loan collection efforts, litigation, and raising capital.

Represented banking client, assisting it comply with formal enforcement action with state and federal bank regulators. Representation also included assisting it with raising capital, change in control approval, loan workouts, fraud investigation, bond claims, and litigation defense.

Over the past two decades, we have represented organizers in the formation of more than 75 banks and trust companies and more than 200 holding companies.

Over the past five years, we have represented more than a half dozen financial institutions in the conversion from one type of regulatory charter to another.

For more than 100 community banking clients, provide ongoing regulatory advice, such as for restructuring of organization debt to comply with insider loan rules (Reg O) and affiliate transaction rules (23A and Reg W), and maintaining compliance with tax rules to allow for the continued treatment as a Subchapter S corporation. 

Assisted clients in all types of regulatory applications, including applications in connection with a change of control, merger or acquisition transaction. We were the first firm to submit an application by electronic mail through the Internet to the Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions.

Drafted banking legislation in Tennessee on behalf of clients and as a member of the Tennessee Banker's Association's Government Relations Committee and the Lawyers Committee.

Represented the Tennessee Bankers Association in various lawsuits where the interests of banks needed to be upheld, including credit union expansion of activities lawsuits and title insurance activities issues.

Represented the Tennessee Bankers Association in obtaining favorable decisions from the Tennessee Attorney General, and defending the decision in court, allowing banks in Tennessee to sell title insurance. Providing similar work for other state banking associations.

Engaged by a trust-only federal savings bank client with offices in more than 15 states to analyze and evaluate whether to convert to a state chartered trust company, and if so, which state would be the best state to hold a state trust charter.

Represented a trust company client in sale of the company and the formation of a new trust company with respect to the spin-off of certain trust lines of business, including filing regulatory applications with state trust regulators.