Spencer Fane LLP is a full-service law firm where your leaders work with our leaders. The firm has offices throughout the state of Missouri, and has a long tradition representing financial institutions ranging from small locally owned banks to large multi-state institutions. Our attorneys have deep experience in banking and offer legal, regulatory, and compliance assistance in areas including mergers & acquisitions, holding company formation, federal and state regulatory affairs, regulatory enforcement action, commercial lending transactions, special assets/loan enforcement, troubled institution assistance, internal policy preparation, consumer credit and deposits, and corporate bond trustee and fiduciary liability. As a full-service firm, Spencer Fane also provides an array of non-banking services to financial institutions, including HR counseling and training, employment litigation, and employee benefits counsel. We make it a point to know your business, your goals and your priorities, then provide the experience necessary to help your organization in an efficient and timely manner. Contact Elizabeth Fast ([email protected]) by email or Toll-free at 800-526-6529 for more details.
Stinson LLP represents hundreds of financial institutions on a wide range of banking issues. Working closely with community, regional and large national banks throughout the U.S., Stinson attorneys have vast experience handling mergers and acquisitions, regulatory and operations matters, new product development, commercial lending deals, prepaid cards and payment systems, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy issues and commercial and class action litigation. We stay informed on federal and state regulations to aid clients in effective compliance measures. Our attorneys provide sophisticated counsel on M&A transactions and the tax, ERISA, regulatory, real estate, and antitrust issues involved. Stinson has consistently been listed among the top firms in S&P Global Market Intelligence’s bank and thrift legal advisor rankings based on the number of M&A transactions. For more information, please visit www.stinson.com.
Mickes O’Toole, LLC is a full-service law firm dedicated to serving clients as a valued counselor and advocate. We have built substantial and enduring relationships with our clients by taking the time to understand their unique needs and working with them as partners to develop practical solutions tailored to their specific circumstances. We have set ourselves apart in an increasingly competitive marketplace by operating with flexibility, nimbleness, and strength. With attorneys licensed in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Florida, Texas, and Washington, and with experience handling litigation and matters across the country, we provide nation-wide representation with local service. At the heart of everything we do is a set of core values that guide our every action.
Armstrong Teasdale LLP serves the legal needs of financial institutions,advising them on cutting-edge transactions, sensitive regulatory issuesand major legislative changes. Through attorneys from the firm’slitigation, labor and employment, employee benefits, tax and otherpractices, we offer broad-based legal guidance that meets the uniqueneeds of state and federal banks and savings and loan associations.We create sophisticated and innovative solutions to safeguard theirassets, protect their reputations, develop new projects and allow themto pursue their strategic and fiscal objectives with confidence.
Lathrop GPM is uniquely qualified to represent financial institutions from loan documentation, to regulatory law, to tax exempt finance and to loan enforcement, workouts, and bankruptcy. We have a dedicated team of attorneys that can handle any issues that may arise relating to acquisitions, mergers and dispositions of financial institutions, including retail operations; credit extension relationships, from complex loan documentation through enforcement; federal and state regulatory compliance issues/problems; complex commercial litigation, both at trial and on appeal, including cases appearing before the U.S. Supreme Court; issuance, documentation, collection and denial of payments of letters of credit, foreign exchanges and derivatives; fiduciary, trust and pension issues; and employment and labor relations. Lathrop GPM represents some of the nation's largest financial institutions, such as private and publicly held banks and bank holding companies, as well as many regional and community financial institutions, and has offices conveniently located in Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, Columbia/Jefferson City.
The attorneys in the Banking and Financial Institutions Practice Group of Polsinelli PC understand the business and the needs of community banks. We work with community banks throughout Missouri regarding a broad range of issues including formation, capital raising, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate restructurings and regulatory compliance issues. We also understand the challenges our financial institution clients face with respect to employment, executive compensation, and related issues, and work with owners regarding business succession and wealth planning. Polsinelli also has one of the largest and most experienced creditors’ rights and loan documentation practice groups in Missouri. Whether you need assistance in documenting a sophisticated loan, resolving a problem credit, or handling a difficult real estate matter, we have the experience your bank needs. Polsinelli has the broad range of experience and depth of attorneys to help you meet your legal objectives. The firm is one of the top 100 law firms in the country, with more than 900 attorneys organized around more than 100 services and 70 industry groups. Polsinelli helps community banks stay ahead in an evolving industry.
Our practice focuses on servicing financial institutions with a broad range of legal, regulatory, and operational issues. In particular, we assist community banks in the negotiation and consummation of mergers and acquisition, stock and asset sales, and debt and equity offerings. In addition, we assist community banks with regulatory and compliance matters, including responding to examination issues and enforcement actions, advising on consumer compliance issues, and addressing vendor management issues.
Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard P.C. focuses its financial institutions practice on small and medium-sized community banks. The firm provides services for loan documentation, compliance, workout and bankruptcy, foreclosure, product development, employment and contract consultation, general counseling, and regulatory issues. Sandberg Phoenix represents more than 30 financial institutions in the greater St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas. Its goal is to give top-quality, prompt, and practical legal advice at reasonable fees. Client satisfaction is the firm’s primary objective. The firm has approximately 160 attorneys and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with additional offices in Kansas City and throughout Southern Illinois. The head of the banking practice is Loren Ettinger.