On August 11, 2025, BankFinancial Corporation, Burr Ridge, Illinois, announced the signing of a merger agreement with First Financial Bancorp., Cincinnati, Ohio, pursuant to which BankFinancial will merge with and into First Financial in a stock transaction valued at approximately $142 million. BankFinancial Corporation is the holding company for BankFinancial, NA and has approximately $1.4… Read more »
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Article – Banks Deserve the Ability to Appeal Regulators’ Enforcement Actions
To our clients and friends: Brendan Clegg, Partner at Luse Gorman, recently authored an article for American Banker’s BankThink titled “Banks Deserve the Ability to Appeal Regulators’ Enforcement Actions.” As the federal bank regulators reassess various aspects of the supervisory framework and revise their policies and procedures to improve efficiency, there is an opportunity to… Read more »
Legal Update – Executive Order on Debanking
On August 7, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking For All Americans” to combat perceived “politicized or unlawful debanking” practices by regulated financial institutions against persons or entities based on their political affiliations, religious beliefs, or business activities. Our Legal Update, available here, provides an overview of the Executive Order’s… Read more »
Alert – Volume 20 of The Bankers’ Bulletin
To our clients and friends: Today we published Volume 20 of The Bankers’ Bulletin, providing our insights into key banking industry developments from July 2025, including: The FDIC’s proposed increases to Part 363’s asset thresholds around independent audits; The OCC’s ending examination for disparate impact; The agencies’ joint statement on crypto-asset expectations; The House Financial… Read more »
Luse Gorman Served as Legal Counsel to Assabet Valley Bancorp in its Mutual-to-Stock Conversion and $191.8 Million Stock Offering
On July 31, 2025, Assabet Valley Bancorp, the mutual holding company of Avidia Bank, completed its mutual-to-stock conversion and Avidia Bancorp, Inc., the new stock holding company of Avidia Bank, completed its initial public offering by selling 19,176,250 shares of its common stock at $10.00 per share. As part of the transaction, Avidia Bancorp also… Read more »