Bio

Kenneth Moore is the managing partner of the firm and heads its banking and corporate practice. He began his legal career with a firm in Santa Barbara, California counseling clients in real estate and general business matters. Mr. Moore joined Reitner & Stuart as an associate in 2003 practicing banking and corporate law, and was named a partner in 2005. Mr. Moore’s experience includes: negotiating and preparing acquisition agreements and related regulatory filings for mergers, sales of assets, deposit assumptions and branch sales; preparing registration statements under the ’33 Act on behalf of bank holding companies and offering circulars for banks; negotiating and preparing securities offering documents; drafting and reviewing a variety of ’34 Act filings, including merger proxy statements; negotiating and settling regulatory orders and agreements with problem banks and thrifts and handling various emergency situations involving problem or failing banks; negotiating TARP related transactions with Treasury and private investors; interfacing with various corporate committees on regulatory and financial compliance; negotiating and structuring long term debt financing for bank holding companies and banks; directing the formation of new banks, thrifts and holding companies; advising and preparing anti-takeover charter amendments and “poison pills;” advising and negotiating in the context of hostile takeover attempts; and rendering general corporate, securities and regulatory advice.