Practice Areas & Industries: Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Gunster Yoakley's Financial Services Practice Group is an industry-focused, multidisciplinary team comprised of regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, securities, broker-dealer, investment adviser, general corporate, international, litigation and creditors' rights attorneys. A commitment to personalized attention combined with decades of legal and practical experience in varied, complex matters have prepared our team to quickly assess issues faced by all types of financial institutions.

Members of Gunster Yoakley's Financial Services Practice Group recognize that clients should expect the very best -- and are committed to delivering just that. With skills, practical experience and extensive resources that are grounded in reality, our attorneys provide clients with workable solutions in an efficient, timely and cost-effective manner.

Services Available

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Securities
• Regulatory Compliance
• Broker Dealer Activities
• Investment Adviser Activities
• International
• Corporate Structuring
• ERISA
• Labor & Employment
• Insurance
• Trust Powers
• Fiduciary Responsibilities
• Immigration
• Finance

Representative Matters

• Assisted Capital City Bank Group in connection with implementation of its Stock Incentive Plan, and its successor, the Associate Incentive Plan, as well as the awarding of common stock, options, stock appreciation rights and other equity-based incentives to key employees. The Plans were registered with the SEC on Form S-8 statements.
• Represented Atlantic States Bank throughout preparations and opening of its first Florida office, located in Fort Meyers, and counseled the institution on Florida's banking and lending laws as they applied to a federal savings bank. A subsidiary of First-Citizens BancShares, Inc., Atlantic States Bank is a sister depository to First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, the fifth largest bank in North Carolina, based on deposits.
• Advised First Peoples Bank on matters relating to its formation as a Florida chartered nonmember bank headquartered in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Clients:
Arvida/JMB Partners, AutoNation, Inc., Bank of America, N.A., Bankrate, Inc., Boca Raton Resort and Club, Capital City Bank Group, Inc., Chiquita International, Inc., Citrix Systems, Inc., Flagler Development Corporation, Florida East Coast Industries, Inc., FTD, Inc., GE Capital, Gill Hotels Company, Inc., Innkeepers Hospitality, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Jupiter Island Club, Lee Munder Capital Group, Levenger Company, Lykes Bros., Inc., Murray Goodman Company, Park Avenue BBQ Restaurants, Pegasus Corporation of America, Pioneer Corporation, Pratt & Whitney, Ranger Construction Industries, Inc., Republic Services, Inc., Rybovich Spencer, SBA Communications Corporation, Seven Springs Golf Club, Smiths Industries PLC, Sonesta Hotels & Resorts, The St. Joe Company, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Teva Pharmaceutical, Trump International Golf Club, Trump National Golf Club, U.S. Sugar Corporation, U.S. Trust Company, United Technologies Corporation, WCI Communities, Inc.