Alternate Office(s)
Areas of Practice
- Banking & Financial Services
- Corporate & Securities
- Corporate Compliance & White Collar Defense
- Corporate Governance
- Insurance Regulatory
- Investment Management Legal Services
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 1987
- Harvard College, B.A., 1984, cum laude; John Harvard Scholar
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 2000
- Georgia, 1997
- Louisiana, 2010
- Massachusetts, 1987
- New Hampshire, 1991
Katharine Musso is a partner in the firm's Banking & Financial Services Practice Group, and has almost 25 years of experience representing banks and financial institutions before state and federal regulators, including the representation of troubled financial institutions. She is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) as certified by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) as certified by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.
Ms. Musso provides regulatory and general corporate legal services to a wide range of financial institutions, banks, thrifts, insurance companies, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and private equity funds. She also represents bank and insurance company holding companies.
Ms. Musso advises clients on regulatory matters including bank charters, holding company applications, mergers and acquisitions, Forms A, B-D, and ADV. Her practice includes regulatory counseling with respect to the requirements of all of the federal banking agencies, FINRA and the SEC. Her compliance counseling covers risk management, the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), data security, privacy, fraud, internal investigations, and affiliate transactions.
Noteworthy
- AV® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) in the area of Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist
- Certified Fraud Examiner
News
- Investment Management Legal Services Team to Host Quarterly Roundtable Luncheon Series
- Musso Profiled in Birmingham Business Journal
- Musso Published in Banking Traditions
- Musso Speaks at American Conference Institute Forum
- Musso Quoted in September 23, 2011, edition of the Birmingham Business Journal
- Eighty-Two Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012
Presentations
- "Document Retention and Destruction Policies for Financial Institutions", August 24, 2011
- "Dodd-Frank Takes Aim at Private Equity", June 14, 2011
- Jones Walker Bank Merger Seminar, April 12, 2011
- "Document Retention and Destruction Policies for Financial Institutions", February 1, 2011, Lorman Education Services
- "Mergers and Acquisitions: Nuts and Bolts", December 1, 2010, National Business Institute
- "Overdraft Fee and Credit Card Practices: New Regulations and Litigation Trends", November 2, 2010, Strafford
Publications
- "Understanding Insurance Regulation and Coverage"
Inside The Minds, Aspatore Books, 2008
Memberships
- Alabama State Bar (Chair, Insurance Committee)
- Association of Certification Anti-Money Laundering Specialists
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
- Birmingham Bar Association
- Community Bankers Association of Alabama
- Georgia Bankers Association
- Louisiana Bankers Association
- Louisiana Bar Association
- Massachusetts Conveyancers, Inc. (Member, Board of Directors, 1994–1996)
- Massachusetts Bar Association (Chair, Section of Property Law, 1995–1996)
- New Hampshire Bar Association
- State Bar of Georgia
