James W. Morrissey

Shareholder

T: +1 (312) 609 7717 F: +1 (312) 609 5005

Chicago

James W. Morrissey is a shareholder and a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group and Finance and Transactions Group.

Mr. Morrissey concentrates his practice in the representation of financial institutions and corporations and their officers, directors and shareholders in connection with mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, corporate finance, corporate governance and regulatory and compliance matters. He has represented clients in numerous bank and thrift mergers and acquisitions and securities transactions. In addition, he has represented clients with respect to various bank regulatory matters, including advising clients with respect to preparing for regulatory exams and responding to enforcement actions.

Mr. Morrissey also assists financial institutions with other strategic matters, such as new products and services and the establishment of de novo branches and banking institutions. He also speaks and writes on various financial institutions topics.

Mr. Morrissey is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.

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• Federal Circuit in Myriad Affirms Patentability of Isolated DNA Claims
• Seminar Materials: Financial Institutions Group-Managing Your Bank in the New Normal
• Treasury Announces Standard Terms of Small Business Lending Fund
• Summary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

• Bank and Thrift Regulation and Enforcement
• Corporate Securities
• Financial Institutions
• Information Technology/Strategic Alliances
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Mergers and Acquisitions/IP-Related Services
• Subprime Lending and Mortgage Task Force

• J.D., with honors, Order of the Coif, DePaul University College of Law, 2000
• M.B.A., DePaul University, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, 2000
• B.A., cum laude, Boston College, 1993

• Illinois 2000

• Member, Illinois State Bar Association