Overview

Beth’s practice focuses on corporate transactions for community banks. Beth’s practice focuses on corporate transactions and securities and regulatory representation of commercial banks, holding company, credit unions, thrifts and other financial institutions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, debt and equity offerings, and corporate finance transactions.

Experience

  • Lead counsel in rights offering by public company.
  • Structuring and raising equity and debt through public or private offerings, including six IPOs.
  • Shareholder matters including share repurchases/tender offers, responses to activist investors and related corporate governance planning.
  • Advises clients on securities law compliance and reporting obligations.
  • Advises publicly traded clients on SEC and stock exchange compliance, public reporting and corporate governance matters.
  • Advises clients on all matters related to the acquisition or sale of existing financial institutions and the acquisition, sale, establishment and relocation of branch offices.
  • Awarded a top legal ranking in the US for the 10th year in a row in SNL Financial’s league tables for bank and thrift legal advisers. (2016)

Affiliations

Professional

  • Vice President and Director, Women in Community Banking, Texas, 2017
  • Former Board Member, Women Attorneys’ Committee for the Greenville County United Way, 2009

Insights

Events & Speaking Engagements

  • January 2023
    Event
    “How Banks Should Make the Decision to Buy or Sell,” Bank Director – Acquire or Be Acquired, Phoenix, Arizona
  • January 2020
    Event
    “What Banks Need To Do and/or Change to Continue Growing,” Bank Director – Acquire or Be Acquired, Phoenix, Arizona
  • January 2018
    Event
    “How Things Change: Considerations for Different Asset Thresholds,” Bank Director – Acquire or Be Acquired, Phoenix, Arizona
  • September 2017
    Event
    “Capital Planning and M&A Update,” South Carolina Bankers Association – CFO Conference, Columbia, South Carolina
  • March 2017
    Event
    “Capital Planning for Community Banks: All Regulatory Roads Lead to Your Capital Plan,” Oregon Bankers Association – Finance & Accounting Conference, Portland, Oregon
  • February 2017
    Event
    “Capital and Management,” South Carolina Bankers Association - Safety & Soundness Conference, Columbia, South Carolina

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Education

JD, Charleston School of Law, cum laude, Chief Justice, Moot Court Board, 2008

BA, International Studies and Spanish, Elon University, magna cum laude, 2004

Admissions

Texas

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