On May 30, 2024, Scott A. Brown presented and moderated a session at the Financial and Accounting Society of New England Conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The session focused on the current mergers and acquisitions landscape and certain regulatory, compensation-related and governance issues.
Read More...On May 9, 2024, Lawrence M.F. Spaccasi participated in the Bank M&A Legal Panel at the D.A. Davidson 26th Annual Financial Institutions Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The session focused on the current mergers and acquisitions landscape, including regulatory issues and concerns.
Read More...On May 4, 2024, Lawrence M.F. Spaccasi and Scott A. Brown presented “Hot Topics for Community Banks” at the Massachusetts Bankers Association 2024 Annual Convention in Key Biscayne, Florida. The session focused on certain current matters impacting community banks, including a summary of the litigation case analyzing the constitutionality of the CFPB, the current mergers and acquisitions landscape, the proposed FDIC corporate governance guidelines, the recent FTC non-competition rule and updates on mutual capital. The presentation included the practical impact on each specifically on community banks.
Read More...On May 2, 2024, Lawrence M.F. Spaccasi presented “The Future of Mutual Bank Ownership Structure” at the New Jersey Bankers Association 2024 Annual Convention in Naples, Florida. The session focused on certain current matters impacting banking institutions in the mutual form, including potential developments regarding capital instruments issuable by mutual banks and mutual holding companies and developments in the area of mutual to mutual mergers and mutual holding company mergers, including the shared services model.
Read More...Scott A. Brown and Lawrence M. F. Spaccasi presented “Addressing Deal Certainty in Uncertain Times” at the 2024 BankDirector Acquire or Be Acquired Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. This session focused on the current regulatory climate with regard to M&A with an emphasis on changing regulatory standards for approval of transactions, hot button issues and potential regulatory threats to the successful and timely completion of a transaction. The session also discussed the growing trend of non-traditional buyers (such as credit unions and investor groups) and the unique regulatory and diligence issues they raise. The session also provided examples of merger agreement provisions that can (and should) be considered when engaging with these non-traditional purchasers to better protect the seller. With the increased regulatory scrutiny of merger transactions, the session also discussed ways to optimize the diligence process, including how to balance a party’s need to ascertain an entity’s regulatory standing while continuing to fulfill its obligations about the treatment of confidential supervisory information.
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