Michael Brown represents financial institutions and their holding companies in a wide range of corporate and regulatory matters, including corporate reorganizations, securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, mutual holding company reorganizations, corporate and securities law, and general bank regulatory matters.

Representative Transactions:

• Represented Oneida Financial Corp., Oneida, New York, in its holding company reorganization and concurrent $31.5 million public common stock offering.

• Represented Northwest Bancorp, Inc., in its mutual holding company conversion to a stock holding company and concurrent $688.8 million public common stock offering.

• Represented Charter Bank, West Point, Georgia, in its $50.0 million incremental common stock offering.