Financial Institutions Update: Preparing For This Fall & Beyond

UPDATE

Speakers

Robert Fleetwood, Partner, Barack Ferrazzano
Rob is co-chair of the Firm’s Financial Institutions Group, which is one of the largest in the nation serving community and regional banks, representing 250+ financial institutions. In 2019 the group was ranked #1 in the Midwest and #3 in the U.S. by announced bank and thrift M&A transactions (20 M&A transactions; $1B+ deal value). The group has also been ranked #1 in the Midwest and #4 in the U.S. (125+ M&A transactions; $6.5B+ deal value) over the past decade.

John Behringer, Partner, RSM US LLP
John is the national financial institutions consulting practice leader and leads the Great Lakes financial institutions practice working with clients ranging in size from $100 million to over $100 billion. He has over 20 years of public accounting experience working specifically with commercial banks, both privately and publicly held, de novo institutions, mortgage banks, investment companies, and broker dealers. John focuses on providing advisory and risk management consulting services to commercial banks. He has extensive experience providing internal and external audit services, loan review, and credit administration risk management services. These services include SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley, and FDICIA reporting issues, internal controls implementation, and ongoing compliance services.

Lynne D. Mapes-Riordan, Partner, Barack Ferrazzano
Lynne is co-chair of the Compensation & Employment Group. She concentrates her practice in employment and labor law, employee benefits, and executive compensation. Her practice has provided her with a breadth of experience in all aspects of a company's relationships with its executives and other employees, including executive employment, severance, and compensation agreements and arrangements. She regularly advises clients on the tax law and ERISA requirements of tax-qualified retirement plans and represents clients before the IRS and DOL in connection with tax-qualified plans.

Brandon Koeser, Senior Analyst, RSM US LLP
Brandon is a manager with RSM’s financial services practice. He brings over 10 years of experience serving clients, both public and private, in the financial services industry, including broker-dealers, private equity funds and small business investment company (SBIC) funds, hedge funds and financial institutions with assets up to and over $1 billion. In his current role, Brandon serves his clients by providing industry-specific insights and thought leadership that allows them to stay at the forefront of the changes within their industry while also providing assistance with audit and accounting matters, financial statement audits, attest engagements and special projects, including specialized internal audits and risk assessment engagements, audits of internal controls over financial reporting, custody audits, and employee benefit plan and health and welfare plan audits.

John Geiringer, Partner, Barack Ferrazzano
John leads the Financial Institutions Group’s regulatory practice at Barack Ferrazzano. He is a well-known banking attorney who handles regulatory compliance and enforcement issues for banks across the country. John is a Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Banking Law, and previously served as the Chairman of its Enforcement, Insider Liability and Troubled Banks Subcommittee, and its Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Subcommittee.

John K. Freechack, Managing Director, Piper Sandler
John is a Managing Director in Piper Sandler's Financial Services Investment Banking Group. With over 15 years of financial institutions experience as both an investment banker and a commercial banker, John brings extensive knowledge of the regional and community bank sector. He concentrates on M&A and capital raising in the banking sector, primarily in the upper Midwest, and has completed more than 50 transactions totaling over $4 billion in deal value. John joined Piper Sandler in October 2015 from River Branch Capital LLC. Prior to joining River Branch in March 2013, John worked in the Investment Banking Group at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. John previously worked for a regional commercial bank where he was involved in acquisitions, finance, and lending.

Stanley F. Orszula, Partner, Barack Ferrazzano
Stan has extensive experience providing strategic counsel to banks on compliance and regulatory issues, general banking corporate matters, government lending, secured lending, distressed loans and assets, failed bank receiverships, FinTech agreements and partnerships, and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS). Stan's background includes experience as a counsel with the FDIC, sitting on the board of a financial institution, and representing banks in private practice for 15+ years. He has gained a unique perspective which banks rely on to navigate today's complex regulatory environment and in implementing new technology, products, and services.

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