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:
- Rhinebeck Bancorp, MHC and Rhinebeck Bancorp, Inc., Poughkeepsie, NY, in its conversion from the mutual holding company to the stock holding company form of organization and $88.8 million public stock offering.
- First Savings Financial Group, Inc., Jeffersonville, IN, in its $241.3 million all-stock merger with First Merchants Corporation.
- San Francisco Federal Credit Union, San Francisco, CA, in its purchase and assumption of Summit Bank, Oakland, CA, the wholly owned subsidiary of Summit Bancshares, Inc., resulting in combined total assets of $1.9 billion.
- Credit Union 1, Anchorage, AK, in its merger with MAC Federal Credit Union, Fairbanks, AK.
- Lake Shore, MHC and Lake Shore Bancorp, Inc., Dunkirk, NY, in its conversion from the mutual holding company to the stock holding company form of organization and related $49.5 million public stock offering, including the conversion of Lake Shore Savings Bank’s federal stock charter to become Lake Shore Bank, a New York commercial bank.
- Gesa Credit Union, Richland, WA, in its purchase and assumption of Security State Bank, Centralia, WA, the wholly owned subsidiary of Security State Corporation., resulting in combined total assets of $6.4 billion.
- Pima Federal Credit Union, Tucson, AZ, in its purchase and assumption of Republic Bank of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, the wholly owned subsidiary of RBAZ Bancorp, Inc., resulting in combined total assets of $1.5 billion.
- 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.
- Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, East Lansing, MI, in its acquisitions of McHenry Savings Bank (McHenry, IL); Algonquin State Bank (Algonquin, IL); Gold Coast Bank (Chicago, IL); and American Eagle Bank (South Elgin, IL).
- 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.