Heather Archer Eastep

Strategic business planning

• Structuring and raising equity and debt through public or private offerings.
• Shareholder matters including share repurchases/tender offers, responses to activist investors and related corporate governance planning.
• Structure changes and expansionary activities such as de novo formations, charter conversions, holding company formations, expansion of existing lines of business (trust, insurance, securities and non-banking activities).

Acquisition transactions

• Advises clients on all matters related to the acquisition or sale of existing financial institutions and their nonbank subsidiaries and the acquisition, sale, establishment and relocation of branch offices.
• Mergers and acquisitions of banks with nonbank entities, such as mortgage companies and Fintechs, and investments in banks by third parties.
• Awarded a top legal ranking in the U.S. for the 13th year in a row in SNL Financial’s league tables for bank and thrift legal advisers. (2019)

Corporate Governance

• Advises boards of directors in connection with corporate governance, shareholder activism, and other fiduciary duty matters.
• Management planning, incentive compensation, corporate succession matters and board advisory services.

Regulatory Compliance

• Advises clients on a broad variety of bank regulatory and compliance matters, including consumer compliance, third party risk, compliance management systems, incentive compensation, high-risk customers, transactions with affiliates and other regulatory and compliance matters.
• Response to formal and informal administrative actions and supervisory issues.
• Advises banks and Fintechs on risk management and compliance, including implementation of tailored compliance management systems.