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    Jared M. Fishman

    Partner

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    New York

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    Jared Fishman is a partner in the Firm’s Financial Services and Capital Markets Groups. His practice is primarily focused on advising clients in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, capital raisings, investments and similar transactions. He also regularly advises clients on a wide range of corporate governance, disclosure and general corporate matters, as well as bank regulatory matters. He is a Co-Head of the Firm’s Cybersecurity Practice and a coordinator for the Securities and Technology M&A Practices.

    Jared has advised on M&A transactions for a number of financial institutions including Discover in its acquisition by CapitalOne, Fiserv in its merger with First Data, Bank of New York in its merger with Mellon, the acquisition of Commerce by TD, FirstMerit in its merger with Huntington, HSBC’s sale of its U.S. credit card business and certain branches, American Express in the sale of its Costco credit card portfolio, GETCO in its merger with Knight and the sale of KCG to Virtu. As well investment transactions, such as Liberty Capital’s investments in New York Community Bank and Enstar and AT&T, Google, Verizon and Vodafone’s investment in AST SpaceMobile.

    Jared also serves as regular disclosure and/or issuer counsel to a number of companies including AIG, U.S. Bancorp and Regions Financial and is very active in the Firm’s Fintech Practice, including, among other matters, work on bank/fintech partnerships, CRB Group’s $620 million Series D financing and Stripe’s $6.5 billion private placement, strategic and venture investments for Regions, Shift4, UBS and U.S. Bancorp. In addition, he has worked with numerous companies to obtain banking charters, including SmartBiz’s recent approval to acquire a national bank and NewtekOne’s acquisition of National Bank of New York City and conversion to a bank holding company.

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    Experience

    Experience

    Recent Highlights

    • AST SpaceMobile in its strategic investments from AT&T, Google, Verizon and Vodafone and an underwritten offering of common stock
    • Camden National Corporation in its acquisition of Northway Financial, the parent company of Northway Bank
    • Christopher M. George in his pending acquisition of Greenwoods Financial Group and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenwoods State Bank
    • Discover in its $50.6 billion merger with Capital One
    • Distributed Technologies Research in its strategic partnership with Bakkt

    • Goldman Sachs as placement agent in connection with Stripe’s $6.5 billion private placement
    • J.C. Flowers in its $125 million investment in Capital Funding Bancorp
    • Liberty Strategic Capital:
      • in its $450 million investment in New York Community Bancorp
      • as a lead investor in connection with Enstar’s acquisition by Sixth Street
    • SmartBiz in its acquisition of United Community Bancshares and its wholly owned subsidiary, Centrust Bank, and its application to become a bank holding company
    • U.S. Bank in its strategic alliance with Edward Jones, under which Edward Jones will be able to offer U.S. Bank deposit products and co-branded credit cards to Edward Jones clients

    Representative M&A Transactions

    • American Express in its sale of the credit card portfolio related to its co-brand partnership with JetBlue to Barclays Bank Delaware and its sale of the credit card portfolio related to its co-brand partnership with Costco to Citibank
    • AIG in the sale of United Guaranty Corporation to Arch Capital Group
    • Better Mortgage in its merger with Aurora Acquisition
    • BNY Mellon in various M&A transactions including, Pershing’s acquisition of Optimal Asset Management, the merger of BNY and Mellon and the swap of its retail banking businesses for the corporate trust business of J.P. Morgan Chase
    • Commerce Bancorp in its acquisition by TD Bank
    • FirstMerit in its merger with Huntington Bancshares
    • Fiserv in its merger with FirstData and its acquisition of Finxact
    • GETCO in its merger with Knight Capital
    • HSBC in the sale of 195 bank branches to First Niagara Financial Group and the sale of its U.S. cards business to Capital One
    • ING in the sale of ING Bank of Canada to The Bank of Nova Scotia
    • An affiliate of J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of Banco Santander’s Island Finance consumer lending business in Puerto Rico
    • KCG Holdings in numerous M&A transactions, including its merger with Virtu Financial and the sales of KCG Hotspot (a spot fx ECN), KCG Futures (a futures commission merchant) and its NYSE Designated Market Maker business
    • Ladenburg Thalmann in its merger with Advisor Group
    • MUFG Union Bank in its acquisition of a supply chain finance platform from GE Capital
    • NewtekOne in its acquisition of a national bank and conversion to a bank holding company
    • New York Community Bancorp in various M&A transactions including the sale of its residential mortgage banking operations to Freedom Mortgage, its $2.6 billion acquisition of Flagstar and its acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of Signature Bank from the FDIC
    • Ocwen Financial in its acquisition of PHH
    • Piper Sandler in its combination with Sandler O’Neill and its acquisitions of Aviditi Capital Advisors, DBO Partners and The Valence Group
    • Popular in the acquisition of certain assets and deposits of Doral Bank from the FDIC in a receivership transaction
    • Regions Financial in its acquisitions of Enerbank and Ascentium and its sale of Morgan Keegan to Raymond James
    • Reinvent Technologies in its acquisition of Hippo Insurance through a de-SPAC transaction
    • Related Fund Management in its joint venture with Community Preservation Corporation to acquire an interest in $5.8 billion of multifamily loans in New York City held by the FDIC as receiver for Signature Bank
    • SVBFG in connection with its sales in connection with its Chapter 11 proceeding of SVB Capital, SVB India and SVB Securities (now Leerink)
    • U.S. Bank in numerous transactions, including the acquisition of the Chicago-area branches of RBS Citizens, the acquisition of the assets and liabilities of FBOP from the FDIC in a receivership transaction and subsequent sale of the Texas branches to Prosperity, its strategic alliance with State Farm and the sale of its third party ATM processing business.

    Corporate Finance / Strategic Investments

    • AIG and Corebridge in connection with their syndicated credit facilities
    • AIG in connection with numerous debt tender offers
    • Amgen in connection with a $10 billion common stock tender offer
    • CRB Group, the parent company of Cross River Bank, in its $620 million Series D financing
    • FirstBank Holdings in a private placement of preferred stock
    • Morgan Stanley, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo in their Series C investments in Versana
    • New York Community Bancorp in the $392 million SEC-registered secondary offering of common stock sold by the FDIC by way of underwritten block trade
    • Public debt and equity offerings for a variety of issuers, including AIG, AST SpaceMobile, Fiserv, M&T Bank, New York Community Bancorp, Regions Financial and SunTrust Banks
    • Fintech and strategic investments for numerous bank and non-bank clients, including Morgan Stanley, Regions, Shift4, UBS, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo
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    Rankings and Recognitions

    Rankings and Recognitions

    • Recognized by Thomson Reuters as a Stand-out Lawyer (2025)
    • Recognized in Chambers USA – Financial Services Regulation: Financial Institutions M&A (2023-2025)
    • Recognized as one of the “500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers” by Lawdragon (2024, 2025)
    • Named a “Rising Star” in IFLR1000 (2018–2023)
    • Named “Best in Financial Regulation” in Euromoney’s Americas Rising Star Awards (2018)
    • Awarded “Matter of the year” in in Euromoney’s Americas Rising Star Awards (2018) for his work on AIG’s dual-track sale of United Guaranty
    • Named in the inaugural class of “Next Generation Lawyers” in the Financial Services Regulation practice area in Legal 500 US 2017
    • Named a “Rising Star” by New York Super Lawyers (2015–2016)
    • Named in M&A Advisor’s “40 under 40” rankings of top professionals who have reached a significant level of success in their careers under the age of 40 (April 2014)
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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises American International Group on $1.25 Billion Registered Notes Offering

      May 14, 2025
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      March 19, 2025
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      December 4, 2024.
    • S&C Advises SVB Financial Group Through Successful Plan of Reorganization

      November 7, 2024
    • S&C Advises Regions Financial in $500 Million Depositary Shares Offering

      August 6, 2024
    • S&C Advises Regions Financial in $750 Million Senior Notes Offering

      June 20, 2024
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • Federal Banking Agencies Propose Required Cyber Incident Notifications

      Podcasts February 3, 2021
    • S&C Financial Services Coronavirus Developments

      S&C Alerts March 25, 2020
    • The Coronavirus Outbreak

      S&C Alerts March 17, 2020
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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • New York University School of Law, J.D., 2005
    • University of Michigan, B.B.A., 2001

    Bar Admissions

    • New York
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