Keeler Fina represents financial institutions and their holding companies in a range of corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and mutual-to-stock conversions, regulatory filings and enforcement matters, subordinated debenture issuances, and compliance with state and federal securities laws and bank and credit union regulations.
Prior to joining Luse Gorman, Ms. Fina clerked at the U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals and interned with the in-house legal departments of both Sony Music Entertainment and DocuSign.
Practice Areas:
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Capital Markets and Corporate Finance
- Public Company Reports and Shareholder Relations
- Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits and Taxation
- Corporate Governance
- Bank Regulatory and Enforcement Services
- De Novo Banks and Bank Charter Conversions
- Credit Unions
Representative Transactions:
- FB Bancorp, Inc., and Fidelity Bank, New Orleans, LA, in its conversion from mutual-to-stock form, incorporation of FB Bancorp, Inc., the newly formed holding company for Fidelity Bank, and concurrent public offering of $198.4 million of common stock.
- Hometown Financial Group, Inc., Easthampton, MA, in its acquisition of North Shore Bancorp.
- Rollstone Bancorp, MHC, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the mutual holding company of Rollstone Bank & Trust, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in its merger with and into River Run Bancorp, MHC.
- Financial Institutions, Inc., the holding company of Five Star Bank, Warsaw, NY, in the sale of its insurance agency subsidiary, SDN Insurance Agency, LLC, to NFP Property & Casualty Services, Inc.
- Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, East Lansing, Michigan, in its acquisitions of McHenry Savings Bank, McHenry, Illinois, and Algonquin State Bank, Algonquin, Illinois.
- NB Financial, MHC and Needham Bank, Needham, MA, in its conversion from mutual-to-stock form, incorporation of NB Bancorp, Inc., the newly formed holding company for Needham Bank, and concurrent public offering of $410.0 million of common stock.
- Idaho Central Credit Union, Pocatello, ID, in its private placement of $80.0 million of its subordinated debt securities.
- Evans Bancorp, Inc., Williamsville, NY, in the $40.0 million sale of its insurance subsidiary, The Evans Agency, to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.