Bio

Jeffrey Gerrish is Senior Chairman of the Board of Gerrish Smith Tuck Consultants, LLC and Gerrish Smith Tuck, PC, Attorneys. Mr. Gerrish’s consulting and legal practice places special emphasis on strategic planning for boards of directors and officers, community bank mergers and acquisitions, bank holding company formation and use, acquisition and ownership planning for boards of directors, regulatory matters, including problem banks, memoranda of understanding, cease and desist and consent orders, and compliance issues, defending directors in failed bank situations, capital raising and securities law concerns, ESOPs and other matters of importance to community banks. He formerly served as Regional Counsel for the Memphis Regional Office of the FDIC with responsibility for all legal matters, including all enforcement actions. Before coming to Memphis, Mr. Gerrish was with the FDIC Liquidation Division in Washington, D.C. where he had nationwide responsibility for litigation against directors of failed banks. He has been directly involved in fair lending, equal credit and fair housing matters, in raising capital for problem financial institutions and in hundreds bank merger transactions. Mr. Gerrish is an accomplished author, lecturer and participates in various banking-related seminars. In addition to numerous articles, Mr. Gerrish is also the author of the books The Bank Directors’ Bible: Commandments for Community Bank Directors and Gerrish’s Glossary for Bank Directors and produces an every-two-week complimentary newsletter, Gerrish’s Musings. He also is or has been a member of the faculty of the Independent Community Bankers of America Community Bank Ownership and Bank Holding Company Workshop, The Southwestern Graduate School of Banking Foundation at Southern Methodist University, the Wisconsin Graduate School of Banking, the Pacific Coast Banking School, and the Colorado Graduate School of Banking, and has taught at the FDIC School for Commissioned Examiners and School for Liquidators. He is a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Regents of the Paul W. Barret, Jr. School of Banking. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Maryland and received his law degree from George Washington University’s National Law Center. He is a member of the Maryland, Tennessee, Virgin Islands, and American Bar Associations, was selected as one of “The Best Lawyers in America” 2005 through 2022 and as the Banking Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers Memphis, 2009.