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Michael Waters is a partner in the firm's Banking & Financial Services Practice Group, and has practiced corporate and securities law, primarily in the financial institutions area, for more than 30 years. He also serves as a member of the firm's board of directors. Mr. Waters routinely represents banks, bank holding companies, and other financial entities in acquisitions, capital raising transactions, shareholder issues, new bank formations, and board fiduciary duty issues. He has advised both buyers and sellers in approximately 80 bank mergers and acquisitions, ranging from small community banks to the acquisition of a $34-billion holding company. He also advises banks regarding regulatory issues, examination, compliance, and enforcement proceedings.

Since 1994, Mr. Waters has served as an adjunct professor of law at The University of Alabama School of Law, where he teaches courses in banking law and corporate mergers and acquisitions. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and is a regular contributor to the Community Bankers Association of Alabama's Banking Traditions magazine. Mr. Waters has written numerous law review articles on banking and securities, and is the author of Proxy Regulation, published in 1992 by the Practising Law Institute.

Noteworthy

• Listed in Alabama Super Lawyers in the areas of Banking and Securities & Corporate Finance (listed annually since 2008)
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) in the area of Banking and Finance Law (listed annually since 1995)
  
• AV® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell  

News

• Jones Walker Featured in B-Metro Magazine
• Jones Walker Announces New Partners, Office Heads, and Board of Directors Members
• Eighty-Two Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012
• Waters Featured in B-Metro Magazine
• Attorneys Named to Alabama Super Lawyers 2011
• Jones Walker Presents Bank Merger Seminar

Presentations

• Jones Walker Bank Merger Seminar, April 12, 2011
• "Raising Capital in a Challenging Environment", February 9, 2010, Weathering the Storm Webinar Series

Publications

• "Dodd-Frank and Basel III: How Do They Impact Capital At Your Bank?"
  Banking Traditions, December 1, 2010
• "Fair Lending Revisited"
  Banking Traditions, September 1, 2010

Memberships

• Alabama Citizens Constitutional Commission, Governor Bob Riley (Member, 2003)
• Alabama Law Institute (Member, 1989 to date; Chairman, Task Force on the Revised Alabama Uniform Securities Act, 2004–2005)
• Alabama State Bar (Chairman, Task Force on Admissions, 2003–2006; Member, Task Force on Bar Examinations, 1997)
• Alabama State Board of Bar Examiners (Chairman, 1991–1994; Member, 1987–1994)
• Birmingham Bar Association
  
• District of Columbia Bar
• Farrah Law Society (Board of Trustees, 1992 to date)
• Montgomery County Bar Association