Bio

John Spidi is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. He focuses on corporate, securities, and bank regulatory matters for financial institutions and their holding companies. John has more than 30 years’ experience representing banks, savings institutions, financial institution holding companies, and credit unions in corporate, securities, and regulatory matters. John emphasizes his practice in the area of securities offerings, annual securities reporting requirements, mergers and acquisitions, mutual-to-stock conversions, corporate governance requirements, and all aspects of corporate and bank regulatory matters involving financial institutions. He has represented clients on more than 100 capital raising transactions and mergers and acquisitions. His experience includes representing issuers and underwriters in mutual-to-stock conversions, mutual holding company formations and stock offerings, equity and debt offerings, de novo bank formations, private placements, conversion-mergers, issuer tender offers, proxy contests, stock listings, corporate governance, enforcement matters, and Exchange Act periodic reporting and disclosure requirements. John previously was a senior attorney in the Division of Corporation Finance at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).