The Hunton & Williams LLP Immigration practice, part of the firm's Labor and Employment Team, is concentrated in two major areas. First our work involves advising American and foreign businesses about obtaining the most appropriate temporary and permanent work visas for executives, professionals, and other skilled foreign workers. Careful planning and documentation are necessary to ensure the greatest chance of success. We also represent our clients in any negotiations or administrative...
Practice Expertise
Areas of Practice
- Financial Institutions Corporate and ...
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Zayne’s practice focuses on corporate and regulatory matters involving financial institutions.
Zayne’s practice focuses on the corporate and regulatory representation of commercial banks, holding companies, and other financial institutions. His practice involves matters related to strategic business planning, acquisition transactions, and regulatory compliance.
Relevant Experience
- Advises clients on strategic planning designed to enhance or protect shareholder value, including Subchapter S restructuring, share repurchases/tender offers, holding company formations, anti-takeover strategic planning and corporate succession matters.
- Advises clients on all aspects of obtaining new financial institution charters (national bank, state bank), including the regulatory application process, capital acquisition phase and early stage development, as well as continued representation following bank opening.
- Mergers and acquisitions of healthy and troubled banks, branch sales and purchases, failed bank acquisitions and mergers of equals.
- General regulatory work including lending limit, Affiliates Act, Bank Secrecy Act, Community Reinvestment Act and fair lending advice.
- Former clerk for former Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission where he assisted the Commissioner on various Dodd-Frank rulemakings, cross-jurisdictional matters with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and regulatory issues pertaining to high frequency trading.
- Former intern with the Chief Staff Attorney’s Office of the Supreme Court of Virginia and, working on a third-year certificate, represented indigent criminal defendants in state courts in Southwestern Virginia.
- Former researcher at the Ford Institute for Human Security specializing in research of Corporate Social Responsibility and Codes of Conduct for the Global Fortune 500.
Bar Admissions
Education
JD, Washington and Lee University School of Law, 2012MPIA, Global Political Economy, GSPIA, University of Pittsburgh, 2006BA, History, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1999
Areas of Practice
- Financial Institutions Corporate and Regulatory
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