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Session Description:
The
director of today’s financial
institution has a different role to play
than past directors. Importantly, even
the modern director recognizes that the
role is constantly in a state of change
and evolution. The session discusses how
the job of being a director continues to
change and how directors can meet those
challenges.
Key issues to be discussed include the
following:
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Legal duties and obligations of
directors
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Composition and structure of the
Board
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Evaluation of directors
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Length of service and mandatory
retirement
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Strategic planning obligation
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Current trends for enhancing value
- Cutting edge technology and tools
This program is appropriate for senior
financial executives with responsibility
for Directorship, Board Evaluation,
Strategic Planning, Market
Research and Strategy Teams.
About Philip K Smith:
Mr. Smith is
the President and a member of the Board
of Directors of the Memphis-based law
firm of Gerrish McCreary Smith, PC, and
its affiliated bank consulting firm,
Gerrish McCreary Smith Consultants, LLC.
Mr. Smith's legal and consulting
practice places special emphasis on bank
mergers and acquisitions, financial
analysis, acquisition and ownership
planning for boards of directors,
strategic planning for boards of
directors, regulatory matters, bank
holding company formations and use,
securities law concerns, new bank
formations, S corporations, going
private transactions, trust preferred
securities and other matters of
importance to banks and financial
institutions. He is a frequent speaker
to boards of directors and a presenter
at numerous banking seminars. He
received his undergraduate business
degree and Masters of Business
Administration degree from the Fogelman
School of Business and Economics at The
University of Memphis and his law degree
from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of
Law at The University of Memphis. He is
authoring a new monthly electronic
newsletter, The Chairman’s Forum, which
discusses key topics impacting financial
institutions and, specifically, the role
of the Chairman. Mr. Smith is a Summa
Cum Laude graduate of the Barret School
of Banking where he has been a member of
the faculty. He has also served as a
member of the faculty of the Pacific
Coast Banking School, the Colorado
Graduate School of Banking and the
Southwestern Graduate School of Banking.
About Gerrish McCreary Smith, PC:
Gerrish McCreary Smith Consultants, LLC
and Gerrish McCreary Smith, PC,
Attorneys offer consulting, investment
banking and legal services to community
banks nationwide in the following areas:
strategic planning, mergers and
acquisitions, both financial analysis
and legal services; dealing with the
regulators, particularly involving
troubled banks, memoranda of
understanding, cease and desist orders
and compliance; structuring and
formation of bank holding companies;
capital planning; employee stock
ownership plans, leveraged ESOPs and
incentive compensation packages;
directors and officers liability; loan
quality review; bankruptcy and
securities transactions, and public and
private securities offerings. Gerrish
McCreary Smith, PC, Attorneys has been
ranked as high as third nationally by
number of transactions in bank mergers
and acquisitions.
www.gerrish.com
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