Financial Institution Mergers and Acquisitions
Our Financial Institutions Group is a recognized national leader in the area of mergers and acquisitions, consolidation and spin-offs involving banks, savings institutions, mortgage finance companies and other financial service companies. Our attorneys are highly skilled in sophisticated M&A techniques and draw upon the wealth of bank regulatory, antitrust, tax, securities, capital markets and executive compensation expertise of other members in the group to structure and advise clients in these transactions. The firm is consistently ranked as one of the top national law firms by SNL Securities in the number of bank/thrift deals done annually.
Selected Mergers/Acquisitions and Securities Offerings Include:
Continental Savings Bank
Merger of Equals with West Bend Savings Bank
PrivateBancorp, Inc.
Common Stock Offering ($156.4 million)
MidWestOne Financial Group Inc.
Merger of Equals with ISB Financial Corp. ($101.1 million)
First East Side Savings Bank
Sale of Illinois Branches to Chicago Community Bank
Oswego Bancshares Inc.
Sale to Metropolitan Bank Group Inc. ($38 million)
ABN AMRO NA/LaSalle Bank Corporation
Sale to Bank of America ($21 billion)
MAF Bancorp, Inc.
Sale to National City Corp. ($1.9 billion)
Macquarie Bank Ltd.
Acquisition of aircraft leasing portfolio of GATX Corp. ($1.2 billion)
ABN AMRO Mortgage Group/LaSalle Bank Midwest
$9 billion Sale of AAMG and $227 billion of mortgage servicing rights to CitiMortgage
Bridgeview Bancorp, Inc.
Sale of Arizona branches to Heritage Bank, N.A. ($24.6 million)
PrivateBancorp, Inc.
Acquisition of Piedmont Bancshares, Inc. ($46.6 million)
First Oak Brook Bancshares
Sale to MB Financial, Inc. ($372.6 million)
Signature Bank
Formation of de novo bank
Signature Bancorporation, Inc.
Common Stock Offering ($23.87 million)
Mutual Federal Bancorp, Inc.
Reorganization to a Mutual Holding Company and Common Stock Offering ($11.5 million)
State Bank of the Lakes
Sale to Wintrust Financial ($95 million)
George Washington Bancorp
Trust Preferred Offering Wintrust Financial Corporation Acquisition of First Northwest Bancorp, Inc. ($44.32 million)
Starboard Fund for New Bancs, LP
Capitalization of Private Equity Fund investing in de novo banks ($75 million)
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