Washington, DC, August 21, 2023.  For Immediate Release.  Luse Gorman, PC is pleased to announce that Brendan Clegg has joined the Washington, DC law firm as a partner.  Mr. Clegg was most recently at Alston & Bird LLP.  With his addition to the partnership, Luse Gorman builds upon its unparalleled experience in the financial services industry, expanding and deepening its capabilities in regulatory and enforcement matters.

Mr. Clegg represents banks, financial services companies, and their directors and officers in a broad range of transactional matters and investigational, enforcement and litigation matters before federal and state agencies. He also advises banks and fintechs on federal and state regulatory issues, including the development of effective compliance programs. Mr. Clegg was previously an attorney at the OCC and clerked for the Hon. Tucker L. Melancon in the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Clegg received his Juris Doctor from William & Mary and his Bachelors of Arts from Colgate University.

ABOUT LUSE GORMAN

Luse Gorman was founded in 1993 as a specialty law firm dedicated to representing financial institutions. Since then, we have grown into the largest community-based financial institution law firm in the nation. We advise financial institutions on mergers and acquisitions and a broad range of capital raising transactions, including common stock and preferred stock offerings, subordinated debt offerings, mutual-to-stock conversions, and mutual holding company reorganizations. We are routinely ranked as one of the top law firms nationally for merger and acquisition transactions by community financial institutions and have been ranked number one in number of transactions in the past five years.  We are also routinely ranked as one of the top law firms nationally in total capital raising transactions by financial institutions.  In addition to our transactional practice, we provide a broad range of other services to financial institutions, including advising clients on matters such as SEC and public company reporting and disclosure, shareholder relations, executive compensation and employee benefits matters, taxation, corporate governance, regulatory enforcement and compliance, holding company reorganizations, de novo bank formations and charter conversions.