Katherine Koops helps companies raise capital, buy and sell other businesses and assets, and address issues of concern to their various constituencies—regulators, shareholders and directors. She is a 25-year veteran of corporate and securities law and is a trusted advisor of CEOs, CFOs, and directors of companies facing the challenges presented by today’s regulatory and economic environments. Her client base consists of community banks and other companies located across the country.

Ms. Koops advises her clients on a variety of matters ranging from transformative acquisitions and major recapitalizations to day-to-day corporate and regulatory issues. Specifically, she has:

represented issuers, placement agents and underwriters in private placements and public offerings of equity and debt;
represented both buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions of community banks and other entities;
assisted banks with recapitalization strategies relating to their senior debt and trust preferred securities;
helped companies decide whether going or staying public (or private) is best for their organizations and assisted them in the execution of that strategy;
converted banks and bank holding companies to Subchapter S corporations as a means of enhancing shareholder value;
negotiated the terms of regulatory enforcement agreements for troubled banks and advised them of the regulatory requirements applicable to their operations;
represented buyers and sellers of bank branches and other assets; and
advised boards of directors regarding their fiduciary responsibilities in a variety of contexts.

Ms. Koops also advises clients on an array of securities, corporate and banking law issues, including corporate governance, regulatory compliance, insider trading and disclosure issues, the preparation and filing of annual and quarterly reports, proxy solicitation requirements and registration requirements and exemptions.

Ms. Koops has spoken at numerous trade and industry conferences on a variety of topics, including securities law, strategic planning, corporate governance and regulatory issues. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Emory University School of Law, where she teaches a course on transactional deal skills and served as a coach of the law school’s Transactional Law Program Negotiation Competition Team, which won the 2015 LawMeets® National Championship. She is also co-chair of the Business Law Education Committee of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, and in that capacity has chaired and moderated a number of panel discussions on topics including contract drafting, valuation, ethics and professionalism.