Criminal Law

• Money Laundering
  We also routinely provide management with guidance regarding federal and state banking laws, regulations and policies, including restrictions on capital distributions, lending limits, corporate powers, transactions with affiliates and insiders, conflicts of interest, Community Reinvestment Act, Bank Secrecy Act, anti-money laundering laws, and fair lending and consumer compliance issues.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  We counsel boards of directors, board committees and management of public and private companies on a wide range of corporate governance issues. Our attorneys routinely work with institutions to develop key governance documents, such as charters, articles of incorporation, bylaws, committee charters, and “best practices” policies and procedures, and educate directors and officers on their ongoing fiduciary duties. We also help clients to understand and comply with the laws, regulations and stock exchange listing standards that govern director and auditor independence standards, executive compensation planning, and mandatory corporate disclosures, among other matters. We have extensive experience in guiding clients through executive succession; corporate control issues, including proxy contests, hostile takeovers and anti-takeover planning; forming special committees and conducting internal investigations; responding to regulatory investigations and inquiries; litigation avoidance; and developing compliance programs. In every representation, we provide critical education and help clients to examine the practical and legal implications of taking a particular course of action, including evaluating potential regulatory consequences and responses from proxy advisory firms and shareholders.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Luse Gorman is one of the preeminent banking law firms in the United States. We have exceptional experience in capital raising transactions and mergers and acquisitions.
• Business Disputes
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  Beverly White is head of the firm’s Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits and Taxation Group.  Ms. White has over 30 years’ experience in the areas of employee benefits and taxation, with over 20 years’ devoted almost exclusively to working with financial institutions and their executives.  Ms. White works closely with our clients in the preparation of executive employment agreements, severance and change in control agreements.  She has negotiated numerous non-compete agreements and releases, and has established hundreds of equity and non-equity incentive plans and nonqualified deferred compensation plans, paying particular attention to tax law requirements, including Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Non-compete Agreement
• Severance Agreement

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  We work closely with our clients and their financial advisors at the early stages of a merger by preparing confidentiality agreements, advising on deal structure and tax matters, as well as the terms of any letter of interest. We assist our clients in performing due diligence on potential merger partners, identifying and addressing any potential regulatory issues, negotiating the terms of merger agreements, and registering with the SEC common stock that is used as merger consideration by an acquiror.  The federal and state banking regulatory agencies that oversee bank and bank holding company mergers add an additional layer of complexity to merger transactions.  We have extensive experience and a dedicated team that prepares and files the necessary applications to obtain approval from the federal and state bank regulatory agencies, as well as guiding merger applications through multiple regulatory bodies.  We also guide our clients through the process of acquiring non-banking trust, investment advisory/brokerage and insurance firms.