Chuck Jackson is the senior member of the Firm's Financial Institutions Focus Group. During more than 40 years of practice, Mr. Jackson has devoted a major portion of his efforts to the representation of financial institutions in regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions (from both the buyer's and seller's perspectives), branch sales and purchases, the formation of bank and savings and loan holding companies, access to capital markets through the issuance of stock and debt, securities law matters, and mutual-to-stock conversions. Mr. Jackson has spoken on a variety of topics, including mergers and acquisitions, bank executive compensation arrangements and employment contracts, the Community Reinvestment Act and mutual holding company and stock conversions. He has testified before the FHLBB on the formation of mutual holding companies, has addressed the American Counsel of State Savings Supervisors, America's Community Bankers, The Wisconsin Banker's Association and was largely responsible for drafting Chapter 214 of the Wisconsin Statutes governing the formation and operation of state-chartered savings banks.