Annette Tripp is a member of Sutherland's Corporate Practice Group, focusing on bank and financial services regulatory law and on mergers and acquisitions, including public and private transactions, for banks, thrifts and other financial institutions. Her experience includes conflict-of-interest matters, affiliate and insider transactions, corporate governance, proxy contests, change-in-control procedures, policy review, executive compensation, corporate applications and general regulatory compliance issues. Annette has also been involved in the transfers of trust assets to affiliated and nonaffiliated financial institutions and advice relating to common trust funds. Representative Experience Annette's recent representative experience includes: · Representing a major banking association in a large Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) acquisition of $12.0 billion of assets and assumption of $11.5 billion of deposits. · Advising clients during challenging economic times, including bank Troubled Asset Relief Program Capital Purchase Program (TARP/CPP) applications, failure bids, capital raises, subordinated debt issuances, and insurance coverage of accounts and products. · Representing a regional financial holding company with multi-state financial institution and financial service company acquisitions. · Representing a major banking association in a large multi-bank FDIC purchase and assumption transaction and advising a client in administering complex contractual provisions. · Representing small and large financial institutions in bank and thrift mergers and acquisitions, reverse stock splits, change-in-control procedures, corporate applications and general regulatory compliance matters. · Advising a shareholder in a director election proxy contest for a community bank. · Advising financial institutions in privacy compliance matters. · Representing financial institutions in regulatory issues relating to new product development. · Representing state and national financial institutions in transfers of trust assets to affiliated and nonaffiliated financial institutions. Professional Honors and Awards · Recipient, BTI Client Service MVP and Client Service All-Star Team For Law Firms, BTI Consulting Group, an award extended to only 176 attorneys in the United States (2009) · Recipient, Client Service All-Star Team For Law Firms, BTI Consulting Group, an award extended to only 148 attorneys in the United States (2008) Professional and Community Involvement · Member, State Bar of Texas · Member, Texas Bar Foundation · Member, Houston Bar Association · Member, Houston Bar Foundation · Member, College of the State Bar of Texas · Member, Board of Directors, Texas Association of Bank Counsel · Member, Rice University Business and Professional Women · Member, Women's Finance Exchange, Houston Chapter Recent Publications · Author, "Dodd-Frank brings expansion opportunities-and obstacles," Houston Business Journal (April 29, 2011) · Author, "The Changing Character of Tier 1 Capital," Bank Director (May 12, 2010) · Author, December Bank Regulatory Perspectives (December 2007) · Author, "Government Agency Provides Guidance on Suspicious Activity," Houston Business Journal (October 2007) · Author, September Bank Regulatory Perspectives (September 2007) · Author, May Bank Regulatory Perspectives (May 2007) · Co-author, "Customer Identification Program Requirements for Banks," On Point: Law & Financial Institutions Quarterly, 15.2 (2003) · Speaker, "Director and Officer Exposure: What Keeps You Awake at Night?" Community Bankers Association (February 26, 2010) · Speaker, "OTC Credit Risk in the Post-Bear Stearns World," Sutherland Seminar (February 3, 2009) Industries Financial Services Retirement Products and Services News Sutherland Partner Annette L. Tripp Elected to Texas Association of Bank Counsel Board of Directors
October 7, 2010 Sutherland Represents BBVA Compass in the Acquisition of the Banking Operations of Guaranty Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
August 26, 2009 Sutherland Represents Sterling Bank in Definitive Purchase and Assumption Agreement to Acquire $500 Million in Deposits and 19 Bank Branches Located in Houston and Dallas
August 11, 2009 Bank Charter Conversions Should Occur For Legitimate Reasons Only, FFIEC Says
July 13, 2009 Reproduced with permission from BNA Mergers & Acquisitions Law Report, 12 MALR 644. Copyright 2009 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) Sutherland Partner Annette Tripp named to the 2009 BTI Client Service All-Star Team
January 28, 2009 "People on the Move"
Corporate and Financial Services Partner Annette Tripp is named to the BTI Client Service All-Star Team for Law Firms.
February 8, 2008 Houston Business Journal Legal Alerts Legal Alert: CFPB: Important Comment Period on Nonbank Regulation
June 28, 2011 Legal Alert: FDIC Sanctions World's Foremost Bank
March 14, 2011 Legal Alert: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Structure, Mission and Limitation of Authority Prior to the Appointment of a Director
March 8, 2011 Legal Alert: Dodd-Frank Act Creates Significant Changes in Bankruptcy Law Affecting Derivatives and Other Trading Counterparties
September 22, 2010 Legal Alert: The Dodd-Frank Act: A New Era of Financial Regulation and the Implications for the Insurance Industry
August 3, 2010 Legal Alert: The Dodd Bill Redux: The Senate Takes Aim at Financial Regulatory Reform
March 19, 2010 Legal Alert: Obama Administration Proposes Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee
January 15, 2010 Legal Alert: Proposed Federal Insurance Office Act of 2009 Moves Forward
December 4, 2009 Legal Alert: Federal Banking Regulators Issue Guidance on "Prudent Commercial Real Estate Workouts"
November 6, 2009 Legal Alert: Impact of Financial Regulatory Reform on the Insurance Industry: Proposed Legislation to Implement the Regulatory Reform White Paper
August 5, 2009 Legal Alert: A Scorecard on the Systemic Risk Regulator and Federal Insurance Regulation
February 9, 2009 Legal Alert: Access to TARP Program and Fed Funding: Insurance Company Strategies and Implications
January 14, 2009 Legal Alert: Federal Agencies Approve Final Rules on Credit Card and Overdraft Practices
December 23, 2008 Legal Alert: FDIC and OCC Introduce Modified Application Processes Relating to Troubled Bank Acquisitions
December 10, 2008 Legal Alert: House Financial Services Subcommittee Approves the Insurance Information Act of 2008 to Create an Office of Insurance Information
October 10, 2008 Legal Alert: Moving Forward with the Bailout - The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 Becomes Law
October 3, 2008 Legal Alert: Progress on the "Bailout" Proposal - The Senate Passes an Expanded Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
October 2, 2008 Legal Alert: The Evolving "Bailout" Proposal - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
September 29, 2008 Legal Alert: Federal Reserve Considering Flexibility for Private Equity Bank Investments
July 2, 2008 Legal Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Pre-Confirmation Tax Exemptions
June 18, 2008 Legal Alert: Sutherland Forms Regulatory Reform Task Force
June 12, 2008 Publications Dodd-Frank brings expansion opportunities-and obstacles
April 29, 2011 Houston Business Journal The Changing Character of Tier 1 Capital
May 12, 2010 Bank Director December Bank Regulatory Perspectives
December 2007 Government Agency Provides Guidance on Suspicious Activity
October 2007 Houston Business Journal September Bank Regulatory Perspectives
September 2007 May Bank Regulatory Perspectives
May 2007 Customer Identification Program Requirements for Banks
2003 On Point: Law & Financial Institutions Quarterly Events Community Bankers Association - Director and Officer Exposure: What Keeps You Awake at Night?
February 26, 2010 OTC Credit Risk in the Post-Bear Stearns World
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