Steven Lanter represents financial institutions and their holding companies and investor groups in a wide range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, corporate and securities law, de novo bank formations, general bank regulatory matters, annual SEC representation, stockholder relations, mutual holding reorganizations and mutual-to-stock conversions.


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Representative Transactions:

  • Mid-Southern Savings Bank, Salem, Indiana, pending sale to Beacon Credit Union.
  • NB Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiary, Needham Bank, Needham, Massachusetts, in its mutual to stock conversion and $410.0 million initial public offering.
  • Arlo Financial Holdings, Inc., Springfield, Missouri, (investor group) in its acquisition of Systematic Savings Bank, Springfield, Missouri.
  • Community Savings Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiary Community Savings, Caldwell, Ohio, in its sale to Double Bottomline Corp.
  • Quarry City Savings and Loan Association, Warrensburg, Missouri, in its sale to Community National Bank & Trust, Chanute, Kansas.
  • Greene County Bancorp, Inc., Catskill, New York, in private placement offerings of $30.0 million and $20.0 million of subordinated debt securities.
  • ECB Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiary, Everett Co-operative Bank, Everett, Massachusetts, in its mutual-to-stock conversion and $89.2 million initial public offering
  • Riverside Bank of Dublin, Dublin, Ohio, through its de novo chartering process and initial capitalization through the private placement of $30.0 million of its common stock.
  • Founders Bank, Washington, D.C., through the de novo chartering process and initial capitalization through the private placement of $30.0 million of its common stock.