With a decade of experience in the financial institutions industry, Ellie Cook represents community and regional banks, holding companies and credit unions in a range of corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, stock and debt offerings, mutual-to-stock and charter conversions, and holding company formations. Ms. Cook also counsels companies and their boards of directors on corporate governance matters, public company reporting and disclosure obligations, and shareholder matters. Ms. Cook’s securities law experience includes representing investment banking firms in public and private offerings and investors in private placements.
Practice Areas:
- Capital Markets and Corporate Finance
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Bank Regulatory and Enforcement Services
- Corporate Governance
- Public Company Reporting and Shareholder Relations
Representative Transactions:
- Dime Community Bancshares, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, in its public offering of $75.0 million of preferred stock.
- Riverview Financial Corporation, Harrisburg, PA, in its private placement of $25.0 million of its subordinated debt securities.
- Provident Bancorp, Inc., Amesbury, MA, in its second-step conversion and concurrent public offering of $102.1 million of common stock.
- Bristol County Savings Bank, Taunton, MA, in its acquisition of Freedom National Bank, Greenville, Rhode Island.
- Northwest Bank, Warren, PA, in its sale of three Baltimore, Maryland area branch offices to Shore United Bank, Easton, MD.
- A venture capital firm in its investment in a community bank that supports fintech firms.
- Several investment banking firms as underwriter’s counsel in public and private offerings of common stock and issuances of subordinated debt.