Lee Lassiter counsels clients on a broad range of bank regulatory,
enforcement and compliance matters. He has extensive experience with
bank organization and chartering issues, mergers and acquisitions,
and the establishment of subsidiaries; new products and services;
consumer credit compliance issues; information security and privacy
issues; electronic banking issues; bank-related litigation, workout
of problem loans and commercial transactions, including bank powers,
corporate structure and governance. He works primarily with Boards
of Directors and management teams of community banks throughout the
United States and Puerto Rico.
Mr. Lassiter has held several public-sector senior level positions
such as Deputy Assistant Director Resolution Trust Corporation and
ombudsman for the Department of Treasury's Office of Thrift Supervision.
He has directed the restructuring of many of the nation's largest
troubled thrifts and savings banks. Mr. Lassiter also served as
a Supervisory Agent, Senior Vice President and Special Counsel of
the Federal Home Loan Bank Cincinnati.
In both government and private practice, Mr. Lassiter has worked
closely with the staffs of all of the financial regulatory agencies,
including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Department of the Treasury,
Securities and Exchange Commission as well as with state insurance
and banking regulators.
Mr. Lassiter is a frequent speaker and writer on bank regulatory
matters, and has served as a lecturer for examiner training programs
of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council. He has
organized and lectured at numerous banking schools, conferences,
and seminars throughout the United States. He is a former assistant
professor of Finance and Law at Georgia Southern University. He
has provided policy advice to countries experiencing financial sector
crises including: Lithuania, Malaysia, Macedonia, Japan, Korea,
Republic of China, India, and Russia.
His education includes post-graduate courses in Securities and Banking
Law at Harvard Law School, a Master of Business Administration from
Georgia Southern University and a Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers
University Law School.
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