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Alston & Bird has received significant recognition in the 2025 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, with 77 practice rankings and 164 leading lawyer listings.

Mark Kanaly joins Olsen Palmer’s “Fireside Chat With Learned Counsel” series to discuss bank regulatory bodies on M&A under Trump 2.0, what has changed, what has not, and the impacts on bank M&A.

Nanci Weissgold joins the May 30 panel “Updates in Mortgage Servicing” at this conference sponsored by The Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL).

Nanci Weissgold will speak during opening remarks at this conference 2025 hosted by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

Alston & Bird advised Texas-based pawnbroker FirstCash Holdings and its UK subsidiary Chess Bidco on their £351 million acquisition of H & T Group, a leading publicly traded UK-based operator of pawn stores.

Nanci Weissgold, Anoush Garakani, and Melissa Malpass speak during this conference sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

Nanci Weissgold joins a panel discussion of the Trump Administration’s changes to the focus and authorities of independent agencies such as CFPB and FHFA during the Housing Policy Council’s 2025 annual meeting.

Alex Peurach will be speaking on the May 13 panel “1033 Open Banking Rule: Compliance, Consumer Control, and Security Challenges" about enhanced consumer control over the privacy and security of their financial data.

This article outlines what banks should consider as regulators plan to rescind the 2023 Community Reinvestment Act final rule and to reinstate the prior CRA framework.

Alston & Bird represented Texas-based Industry Bancshares and its six subsidiary banks in their acquisition by Cadence Bank, a Mississippi-based financial services company. Under the agreement, Cadence Bank will pay between $20 million and $60 million in cash for Industry Bancshares’ outstanding common stock.