Atwell, Ryan Christopher

SUZANNE ASHE is Counsel to the firm a member of the Corporate and Securities practice group and is also a member of the Financial Services Regulatory practice group. Ashe focuses her practice on executive compensation matters, including equity plan design, negotiating employment agreements and other elements of executive compensation, as well as related securities compliance matters, such as insider trading, reporting and proxy disclosure issues. Ashe's background includes corporate and securities law aspects of public and private companies, particularly in the financial services industry and with franchises and emerging companies. Her experience also includes organizational and corporate governance matters, business plan development, securities offerings, financings, shareholder relations issues and advising banks and other financial service providers in regulatory, corporate and securities matters. She also is experienced in a variety of business acquisitions and transactions, including going-public and going-private transactions and proxy contests.

Ms. Ashe has experience in the following areas:

·        Initial and secondary offerings for de novo banks

·        Proxy statements, Forms 8-K and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for various public companies, particularly involving executive compensation matters

·         Franchise litigation