Edward Hogan Bio

Ned is Co-Chair of Stevens & Lee’s Financial Institutions Group. He represents private and public companies, including many financial institutions, in connection with general corporate matters, public offerings and private placements of securities, mergers and acquisitions, ongoing regulatory requirements under securities and banking laws, and shareholder matters. Ned has served as both issuer’s and underwriter’s counsel in initial and secondary public offerings and in private placements of equity. He has served as counsel to both the acquirer and the acquired company in mergers and other change-in-control transactions. He has also represented several public companies in connection with the spin-off of a subsidiary to the company’s shareholders to create a new publicly held company. Ned has advised start-up (de novo) banks and their organizers on formation and organization matters, obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals and raising initial capital. He also serves as general counsel to mutual savings banks and mutual insurance companies and has represented them in regulatory matters, conversions from mutual to stock form and charter conversions. He has also assisted multiple banks and thrifts with the formation of their holding companies. In addition, Ned has advised companies in their defense against hostile takeover attempts and in the design and implementation of anti-takeover provisions and techniques. Together with the firm’s employee benefits lawyers, he has drafted and negotiated numerous employment and change in control agreements between companies and their executive officers.