AREAS OF PRACTICE 
Financial Institutions Group

Professionals in this Group

With over 75 years of experience in the banking and thrift industry, Stevens & Lee has been the banker’s choice for generations. Our Financial Institutions Group focuses exclusively on banks and thrifts, offering the benefit of concentrated effort, experience and expertise.

Stevens & Lee and its affiliated businesses offer the most complete range of banking services in the industry, supported with flexible pricing that differentiates between routine matters and the sophisticated capabilities essential to assist our clients in making critical decisions.

In addition to our exclusive focus on the banking industry, our Financial Institution Group structures its services specifically around the needs of banks, giving our clients the targeted advice they require to succeed in a competitive market. Here is a brief overview of the many solutions we provide for both banks and specifically, for the functions within:

Chief Executive Officer
A CEO’s responsibilities involve high-level decisions and long-term planning. Stevens & Lee has assisted many chief executives and their teams in a multitude of “bet-the-bank” situations:
 
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Advisory
  • Government Affairs
  • Regulatory
  • Executive Compensation
  • Investor Relations
  • Litigation

Chief Financial Officer
The bottom line of the bank is very much in the CFO’s hands. Services specifically structured with a bank CFO in mind include:

  • SEC Compliance
  • Capital markets/Capital Formation
  • Tax
  • Asset/Liability Management
  • Financial Modeling and Research
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Loan Trading and Securitization
  • Shareholder relations
  • Swaps and Derivative Products
  • Broker-Dealer Compliance
  • Insurance and GAAP Analysis

Chief Operations Officer/Chief Administration Officer
The COO/CAO manages hundreds of details every day to ensure a smoothly functioning organization. Some of the services with which we can assist the COO include:

  • Regulatory
  • Real Estate
  • Environmental
  • Insurance
  • Technology and Outsourcing

Chief Lending Officer
Planning, marketing, execution, credit analysis – it’s all part of the lending department that is vital to a bank. Stevens & Lee assists lending officers with:

  • Cash Flow Lending
  • Asset-based Lending
  • Syndication
  • Loan Participations
  • Swaps
  • Loan Purchase, Sales and Securitization
  • Regulatory

Chief Credit Officer
Effectively handled, credit is the major source of revenue for your organization and your major risk. We will give you the benefit of our experience:

  • Bankruptcy and Collections
  • Financial Advisory
  • Loan Sales and Securitizations
  • Loan Documentation and Review

Chief Information Officer
State-of-the-art technology is essential to banking success in a global online marketplace. We assist CIOs with:

  • IT Systems and Contracts
  • IT Consulting and Outsourcing
  • Privacy

Chief Trust Officer
We will provide the assistance and expertise you need to:

  • Litigation
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Trustee Counsel

Augmenting our legal expertise are the extended support services we provide through the affiliated businesses within our integrated platform. These include investment banking, government affairs, HR consulting, risk management consulting, swaps and derivative services, tax mitigation, and insurance advisory services.

For more information regarding our Financial Institutions Group or the services we provide, contact Jeffrey P. Waldron at (610) 205-6028.

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