Pat Brown, Managing Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Los Angeles office, has been named to the Los Angeles Times’ “Banking and Finance Visionaries List.” Pat has more than 25 years of experience advising banking and other clients on a full spectrum of corporate matters. He recently advised PacWest Bancorp on its merger with Banc of California in an all-stock merger, the biggest bank merger of 2023.
Pat also recently led the S&C team that advised Columbia Banking System in completing its merger with Umpqua Holdings Corporation, creating a combined organization with approximately $50 billion in assets, $37 billion in loans and $45 billion in deposits. In 2018, Pat was named a “Banking MVP” by Law360 for helping Zions Bancorporation become the first bank to have its “systemically important” designation rescinded by the Financial Stability Oversight Committee.
Pat is an advisory board member at the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law and serves on the Board of Governors of the Institute for Corporate Counsel at USC Gould School of Law. He also is a member of the Educational Resources Committee of Loyola High School in Los Angeles.