Associations
· Mississippi Bar Association
- Business and Real Estate Sections
· Jackson Young Lawyers
· Alabama Bar Association
- Business Law and Corporate Counsel and Real Property, Probate, and Trust Sections
· Community Bankers Association of Alabama
· American Bar Association
- Business Law Section
-- Banking Law Committee
-- Mergers and Acquisitions Subcommittee
-- Community Bank and Savings Association Subcommittee
Legal Experience
· Broad corporate, regulatory, and transactional representation of financial institutions and other entities.
· Representation of privately held institutions in offerings of common and preferred stock.
· Representation of community banks and bank holding companies in their participation in the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the Small Business Lending Fund.
· Representation of international financial institution in approximately 60 individual loan sale transactions that resulted in aggregate proceeds exceeding $750,000,000.
Papers, Presentations & Publications
· Co-Author, "Advice for Bank Directors: The Buck Stops Here," Banking Traditions, 2009.
· Author, "Fine Tuning Securities Fraud: What a Fight Over Cable Boxes Means for the Defense Bar," 24 ALA. DEF. LAW. ASSOCIATION J. 25, 2008.
· Author, "Mending Fences: The Real Purpose of the America Jobs Creation Act of 2004," 13 TUL. J. INT'L & COMP. L. 421, 2005.