Skadden’s Jamie L. Boucher to Speak at Knowledge Congress’ Live Webcast on Bank Mergers and Its Effect On Your Customer Base: Minimizing the Impact on Customer Attrition
New York, NY, October 16, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts announced today that Jamie L. Boucher, Partner, Financial Institutions Regulatory Group, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP will speak at The Knowledge Congress’ upcoming webcast entitled: “Bank Mergers and Its Effect On Your Customer Base: Minimizing the Impact on Customer Attrition Live Webcast”. This two-hour event is scheduled on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET. (For further details of the event and an updated list of panelists, please visit: http://knowledgecongress.org/event_2009_Bank_Mergers.html)
Event Synopsis
Mergers have become an important self-preservation tool for banks and financial institutions in the wake of the global financial crisis. These firms however face considerable challenges with respect to M&A activity and its potential negative impact on their customer bases. In the customer’s mind, it’s all about trust and confidence and people lose faith when they witness mergers as a result of financial duress. Thus, it is necessary to lay out plans that can prevent consumer attrition and reassert confidence during the interim period.
How do mergers affect consumers of the banks involved? What factors erode consumer confidence in the institutions and what can be done? The Knowledge Group is assembling a panel of distinguished professionals to help banks, financial institutions, and industry watchers understand the impact of bank mergers and to teach them how to retain consumers in these turbulent times.
About Jamie L. Boucher
Jamie L. Boucher is a partner in Skadden’s Financial Institutions Regulatory Group with a principal focus on financial institution mergers and acquisitions, regulatory and enforcement matters. Ms. Boucher’s clients include U.S. and non-U.S. banks, thrifts, mortgage lenders, insurance, securities, money service businesses and investment companies. She is part of the Skadden team advising clients on various aspects of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) including the contractual, corporate, regulatory and other aspects of issuing preferred stock to the U.S. Treasury Department under the Capital Purchase Program, and the sale of assets to Treasury under the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
Ms. Boucher regularly represents financial institutions on compliance and enforcement matters including examinations, internal investigations, voluntary disclosures, and the resolution of administrative and enforcement proceedings involving federal and state regulatory agencies. With extensive experience in anti-money laundering and economic sanctions compliance matters, Ms. Boucher has counseled domestic and foreign clients on numerous issues arising under the BSA, OFAC, and related laws. She has worked extensively with clients to design and implement compliance programs as well as monitor and improve corporate compliance posture.
Ms. Boucher is a frequent speaker at seminars on financial institution compliance and regulatory issues, mergers and acquisitions, and enforcement matters. She was selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2008.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Boucher worked for 12 years in the government and the private sector on matters involving international trade and investment regulation. She served as the legislative adviser for international trade and foreign policy to former U.S. Sen. Frank H. Murkowski; as an adviser to the American League for Exports and Security Assistance on trade and national security issues; and as a committee staff member on the U.S. Trade Representative-Department of Defense trade policy advisory committee, the Defense Policy Advisory Committee on Trade. Ms. Boucher currently serves as the chair of the American Bar Association Banking Law Committee, Subcommittee on Mergers and Acquisitions. She is a member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders.
About Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates
Serving clients in every major international financial center, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates ("Skadden, Arps" or "Skadden") is one of the leading law firms in the world, with 23 offices and more than 2,000 attorneys. Their diversified practice enables them to offer solutions to challenging legal issues in virtually every area of corporate law, providing the advice that clients need in order to compete in a global business environment. Skadden represents a broad spectrum of clients, including approximately 50 percent of the Fortune 250 industrial and service corporations, as well as financial and governmental entities, small high technology start-up companies, and cultural, educational and charitable institutions. For 60 years, the firm has advised such entities in many of the most significant corporate and litigation matters worldwide.
For more information about Jamie L. Boucher, and Skadden, please visit: www.skadden.com
About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series
The Knowledge Congress is a series of live webcasts produced by The Knowledge Group, LLC, which examine trends, regulatory, and technology changes across a variety of industries. “We bring together the world's leading authorities and industry participants through informative two-hour webcast that study the impact of changing regulations and help businesses succeed through proper regulatory compliance.” To contact or to register to an event, please visit: www.knowledgecongress.org
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Event Synopsis
Mergers have become an important self-preservation tool for banks and financial institutions in the wake of the global financial crisis. These firms however face considerable challenges with respect to M&A activity and its potential negative impact on their customer bases. In the customer’s mind, it’s all about trust and confidence and people lose faith when they witness mergers as a result of financial duress. Thus, it is necessary to lay out plans that can prevent consumer attrition and reassert confidence during the interim period.
How do mergers affect consumers of the banks involved? What factors erode consumer confidence in the institutions and what can be done? The Knowledge Group is assembling a panel of distinguished professionals to help banks, financial institutions, and industry watchers understand the impact of bank mergers and to teach them how to retain consumers in these turbulent times.
About Jamie L. Boucher
Jamie L. Boucher is a partner in Skadden’s Financial Institutions Regulatory Group with a principal focus on financial institution mergers and acquisitions, regulatory and enforcement matters. Ms. Boucher’s clients include U.S. and non-U.S. banks, thrifts, mortgage lenders, insurance, securities, money service businesses and investment companies. She is part of the Skadden team advising clients on various aspects of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) including the contractual, corporate, regulatory and other aspects of issuing preferred stock to the U.S. Treasury Department under the Capital Purchase Program, and the sale of assets to Treasury under the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
Ms. Boucher regularly represents financial institutions on compliance and enforcement matters including examinations, internal investigations, voluntary disclosures, and the resolution of administrative and enforcement proceedings involving federal and state regulatory agencies. With extensive experience in anti-money laundering and economic sanctions compliance matters, Ms. Boucher has counseled domestic and foreign clients on numerous issues arising under the BSA, OFAC, and related laws. She has worked extensively with clients to design and implement compliance programs as well as monitor and improve corporate compliance posture.
Ms. Boucher is a frequent speaker at seminars on financial institution compliance and regulatory issues, mergers and acquisitions, and enforcement matters. She was selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2008.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Boucher worked for 12 years in the government and the private sector on matters involving international trade and investment regulation. She served as the legislative adviser for international trade and foreign policy to former U.S. Sen. Frank H. Murkowski; as an adviser to the American League for Exports and Security Assistance on trade and national security issues; and as a committee staff member on the U.S. Trade Representative-Department of Defense trade policy advisory committee, the Defense Policy Advisory Committee on Trade. Ms. Boucher currently serves as the chair of the American Bar Association Banking Law Committee, Subcommittee on Mergers and Acquisitions. She is a member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders.
About Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates
Serving clients in every major international financial center, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates ("Skadden, Arps" or "Skadden") is one of the leading law firms in the world, with 23 offices and more than 2,000 attorneys. Their diversified practice enables them to offer solutions to challenging legal issues in virtually every area of corporate law, providing the advice that clients need in order to compete in a global business environment. Skadden represents a broad spectrum of clients, including approximately 50 percent of the Fortune 250 industrial and service corporations, as well as financial and governmental entities, small high technology start-up companies, and cultural, educational and charitable institutions. For 60 years, the firm has advised such entities in many of the most significant corporate and litigation matters worldwide.
For more information about Jamie L. Boucher, and Skadden, please visit: www.skadden.com
About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series
The Knowledge Congress is a series of live webcasts produced by The Knowledge Group, LLC, which examine trends, regulatory, and technology changes across a variety of industries. “We bring together the world's leading authorities and industry participants through informative two-hour webcast that study the impact of changing regulations and help businesses succeed through proper regulatory compliance.” To contact or to register to an event, please visit: www.knowledgecongress.org
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