Financial Institutions
 
  Business & Tax
 
Frank Bonaventure handles banking and business matters at Ober|Kaler.  

    

Frank C. Bonaventure, Jr.
Principal
  fcbonaventure@ober.com
410-347-7305
443-263-7505 fax
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  Experience  

Frank chairs the Financial Institutions Group. He handles all phases of regulatory matters at state and federal levels for financial institutions, such as mergers and acquisitions, mutual conversions, bank powers, lending limits, dealings with affiliates, holding company issues, fair lending, administrative actions (including enforcement action), securities and issues concerning officers' and directors' liability.

He represents financial institutions from a corporate standpoint in all phases of mergers and acquisitions, purchase and assumption transactions, holding company acquisitions, mutual conversions and general corporate governance.

Non-financial institution corporate matters include structuring new corporations, negotiation of contracts, internal governance, mergers, acquisitions and other business combinations. Frank is the immediate past Chairman of the Maryland Lottery Commission.

 
 
    Admitted

Court of Appeals of Maryland

 
 
  Education

Howard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1980

University of Maryland, B.A., 1974

 
 
   Professional & Community

American Bar Association

Section on Business Law

Baltimore City Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals

Maryland Bankers Association

Member, Task Force Director Education

Maryland State Bar Association

Section on Corporations, Banking and Business
Member, Section Council 1993-1994
Committee on Financial Institutions; Chair, 1991-1993

Maryland State Lottery Agency

Chairman of Commission, 2003-2007

 
 
   Honoraries

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Financial Institutions, Transactions Law and Banking Law categories (Woodward/White, Inc.), 2005-2006 and 2007 editions

Listed in the Baltimore Business Journal's Who's Who In Finance, 1999

 
 
   Publications & Presentations

Lecturer, "Annual Beard Miller Banking Conference," 2007

Guest Speaker, Maryland Public Television, "Business Connection," 2005

Lecturer, "Corporate Governance for the Nonpublic Depository Institution," Corporate Governance Conference, 2003

Lecturer, "Privacy Aspects of the Graham, Leach Biley Act," Conference on Consumer Law, 2000

Lecturer, "Privacy Aspects of the Graham, Leach, Biley Act," Wooden and Benson Seminar and the Maryland Independent Bankers Group, 2000

Featured "Banking On It," Baltimore Business Journal, 1999

Contributing Editor, "Banking and Lending Institution Forms," Warren, Gorham and Lamont

 
 
   Professional Background

Maryland Attorney General's Office, Chief Financial Regulator

Office of the Comptroller of Currency, Senior Counsel