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YOUR PROCESS
The DPP Financial Institutions team provides merger and acquisition advisory services, placement agent services in capital raise activities, and other various financial advisory services to a variety of depository institutions and financial services companies.
OUR EXPERTISE
- Transaction structure determinations, including:
- Use of special dividends
- Bank vs. holding company for liquidity/regulatory purposes
- Concentrated ownership issues
- Key employee defections
- Key employee retention negotiations
- Identifying off-balance sheet value in transactions (MSR, net operating loss via IRS Code Section 382, fixed assets)
- Significant contract termination costs
- Ongoing litigation concurrent with the sale process
- S-Corp. considerations with 338(h)(10) elections
- Defined benefit and multiple-employer pension plans
- Non-bank related-party holding company assets
- Public offerings
- Private placement of securities through Regulation D
- Shareholder rights offerings
- De novo bank initial offerings
- Recapitalizations through self-tenders
- Going private transactions
- Subchapter S formation and stock repurchase programs
- Preservation of deferred tax assets and other off-balance sheet assets
- Fairness opinions
- Valuation services, including:
- Strategic alternatives
- Shareholder communications
- Estate planning
- ESOP
- M&A due diligence services
- Transaction options
- Capital planning
- Market updates for directors
- Strategic board retreats
