Elizabeth Fast Bio

Elizabeth Fast is a retired partner at Spencer Fane in the Banking and Financial Services group. For more than 40 years, she has been counseling banks, holding companies and other financial institutions on legal, regulatory, and compliance matters. Before joining Spencer Fane, Elizabeth was the General Counsel, Senior Vice President, and Corporate Secretary for a $9 billion publicly-traded bank with more than 130 branches, where she managed all legal, regulatory, and compliance matters. This experience gave her an in-depth understanding of the internal operations of financial institutions. She conducted over 50 national webinars each year as well as numerous specialized training sessions for financial institutions, and has published a 900-page legal resource book on Missouri business law through Thomson West Publishing Company. Elizabeth is a former member of the Missouri State Banking Board, appointed by the Governor, and a member of the Kansas City Industrial Development Authority and the Housing Authority of Kansas City, appointed by the Mayor.