James C. Stewart is a partner in the firm’s Banking & Financial Services Practice Group in the Washington, D.C. office. He has extensive experience representing financial institutions with respect to corporate, securities, and bank regulatory issues. His transactional experience includes securities offerings, recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions, stock conversions, reorganizations, and bank start-ups. Mr. Stewart has served as issuer’s or underwriter’s counsel in numerous mutual to stock conversion transactions.
Before private practice, he served for six years in the General Counsel’s Office of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the predecessor to the Office of Thrift Supervision, where he was a principal draftsman on regulations relating to stock conversions and acquisitions of control of savings associations.
