REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE Annette’s recent representative experience includes:
- Representing a major banking association in a large Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) acquisition of $12.0 billion of assets and assumption of $11.5 billion of deposits.
- Advising clients during challenging economic times, including bank Troubled Asset Relief Program Capital Purchase Program (TARP/CPP) applications, failure bids, capital raises, subordinated debt issuances, and insurance coverage of accounts and products.
- Representing a regional financial holding company with multi-state financial institution and financial service company acquisitions.
- Representing a major banking association in a large multi-bank FDIC purchase and assumption transaction and advising a client in administering complex contractual provisions.
- Representing small and large financial institutions in bank and thrift mergers and acquisitions, reverse stock splits, change-in-control procedures, corporate applications and general regulatory compliance matters.
- Advising a shareholder in a director election proxy contest for a community bank.
- Advising financial institutions in privacy compliance matters.
- Representing financial institutions in regulatory issues relating to new product development.
- Representing state and national financial institutions in transfers of trust assets to affiliated and nonaffiliated financial institutions.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Recipient, BTI Client Service MVP and Client Service All-Star Team For Law Firms, BTI Consulting Group, an award extended to only 176 attorneys in the United States (2009)
- Recipient, Client Service All-Star Team For Law Firms, BTI Consulting Group, an award extended to only 148 attorneys in the United States (2008)
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Member, Texas Bar Foundation
- Member, Houston Bar Association
- Member, Houston Bar Foundation
- Member and Former Director, Texas Association of Bank Counsel
- Member, Rice University Business and Professional Women
- Member, Women’s Finance Exchange, Houston Chapter
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Author, “The Changing Character of Tier 1 Capital,” Bank Director (May 12, 2010)
- Author, December Bank Regulatory Perspectives (December 2007)
- Author, “Government Agency Provides Guidance on Suspicious Activity,” Houston Business Journal (October 2007)
- Author, September Bank Regulatory Perspectives (September 2007)
- Author, May Bank Regulatory Perspectives (May 2007)
- Co-author, “Customer Identification Program Requirements for Banks,” On Point: Law & Financial Institutions Quarterly, 15.2 (2003)