Practice Areas & Industries: Miller & Martin PLLC

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Miller & Martin is experienced in all areas of concern to financial institutions, and its attorneys represent every aspect of the industry from de novo community banks to major international lenders. As the large financial institutions have reached across state lines and merged to become larger and more consolidated, a proliferation of community banks have been chartered. Each is a unique business with all the legal needs of any typical business, but each also has to address sensitive regulations and legal issues pertaining to the financial services industries.

Services Available

The basic areas of service from a law firm for a financial institution will include the services that other businesses need on a daily or occasional basis, such as employee benefits planning and dealing with other labor and employment issues. However, financial institutions also face a variety of issues that are especially challenging in their industry, including bankruptcy and creditors rights, mergers and acquisitions, and the variety of compliance and supervisory issues tied to each particular classification of federal or state institution.

Representative Matters

• Represented public bank holding companies in large acquisitions and mergers in metropolitan Atlanta.
• Represent many SEC reporting banks and bank holding companies.
• Represented parties in mergers of equal transactions.
• Represented clients in acquisitions of insurance companies.
• Serve as general counsel for a large number of financial institutions and regularly advise clients concerning corporate, regulatory, securities and capital raising.
• Successfully defended class actions against financial institutions and successfully defeated class claim asserted against big six accounting firm.
• Successfully involved in governmental agency actions relating to troubled and failed financial institutions for more than 20 years.
• Regularly advise de novo financial institutions with all aspects of formation and securities offerings.
• Represented third party ACH processor in complex litigation and general contractual matters.
• Represented bank holding companies in the sale of merchant credit card portfolios.