Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s financial institutions corporate and regulatory group focuses on bank regulatory and corporate matters. Lawyers within the practice represent banks, thrifts, foreign banks, their branches and agencies and other financial institutions, as well as bank and thrift holding companies and their officers, directors and owners. We have established and represent trust companies and bank trust departments. Decades of experience representing clients in the banking industry provide a solid foundation for our representation of clients in a broad range of transactions. Our practice includes substantial regulatory representation at state and federal levels.

We represent clients in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, including subordinated debt, assisting clients with TARP, as well with other federal programs to enhance liquidity and capital to financial institutions, the full range of corporate transactions, ownership succession and estate planning issues, officer and director compensation packages and retirement planning, negotiating and restructuring stock loan programs and negotiating and defending regulatory administrative actions, as well as responding to penalty referrals and providing advice about all aspects of banking statutes and regulations and interpretation of the same. We also represent bank clients engaging in nontraditional activities and acquisitions involving insurance, securities brokerage and investment advisory services.