Luse Gorman is the Top Legal Advisor for Bank Mergers in 2023

January 10, 2024

Luse Gorman, PC is pleased to announce that we are again the top legal advisor in the nation, based on number of transactions, for bank mergers as reported by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The firm served as counsel for 18 bank merger transactions in 2023, covering a broad spectrum of deal types and structures, both on the buy and the sell side.

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Luse Gorman Served as Legal Counsel to Needham Bank in its Conversion and Related $410.0 Million Stock Offering

January 9, 2024

On December 27, 2023, NB Financial, MHC, Needham, Massachusetts, completed its conversion from a mutual holding company to a stock holding company. Concurrently with the conversion, NB Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”), the newly formed holding company for Needham Bank, completed its initial public offering by selling 40,997,500 shares of its common stock at $10.00 per share. The Company also contributed 1,708,229 shares of common stock and $2.0 million in cash to Needham Bank Charitable Foundation, Inc., a charitable foundation formed in connection with the conversion. The Company’s common stock trades on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “NBBK.”

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Luse Gorman Served as Legal Counsel to Piedmont Federal Savings Bank in its Acquisition of Wake Forest Bancshares, Inc.

January 4, 2024

On January 2, 2024, Piedmont Federal Savings Bank, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, completed its acquisition of Wake Forest Bancshares, Inc., Wake Forest, North Carolina, in an all-cash “remutualization” transaction valued at approximately $14.9 million. As a remutualization transaction, the merger involved novel pricing issues regarding the acquisition of mutual holding companies with public stockholders by mutually owned institutions.

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Brendan Clegg appeared on the BankTalk Podcast hosted by Remedy Consulting

January 3, 2024

On December 26, 2023, Brendan Clegg appeared on the BankTalk podcast hosted by Remedy Consulting. On the episode, Brendan discussed the different types of enforcement actions, the ways that an enforcement action can develop, whether directors and officers can be subject to personal actions, common issues that trip up banks and their leadership, and other topics relevant to the bank enforcement process.

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