Hunton & Williams LLP Named Top M&A Firm by Number of Deals After Advising on 12 Bank Acquisitions in 2012

DALLAS — March 11, 2013 — Hunton & Williams LLP was ranked #1 for the fourth time in six years in SNL Financial's league tables for bank and thrift legal advisers, by number of deals. SNL Financial provides business intelligence services for the banking, insurance, financial services, real estate, energy, and media and communications sectors.

The firm's financial institutions corporate and regulatory lawyers advised on 12 announced whole bank acquisitions and two additional undisclosed transactions during 2012. Over the past 15 years, they have participated in nearly 300 banking merger and acquisition transactions.

"We are pleased by this honor," said Peter Weinstock, partner in the firm's Dallas office whose practice focuses on corporate and regulatory representation of financial institution franchises. "We have also been involved in a number of whole bank transactions involving targets that are experiencing significant asset quality and earnings challenges."

Weinstock notes that in these types of deals, the firm has helped clients structure transactions that protect acquirers from risks they did not create and allow selling shareholders to realize a fair price for their investment.

About Hunton & Williams LLP

Hunton & Williams LLP provides legal services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals, as well as to a broad array of other entities. Since our establishment more than a century ago, Hunton & Williams has grown to more than 800 lawyers serving clients in 100 countries from 19 offices around the world. While our practice has a strong industry focus on energy, financial services and life sciences, our experience extends to more than 100 separate practice areas, including bankruptcy and creditors' rights, commercial litigation, corporate transactions and securities law, intellectual property, international and government relations, regulatory law, products liability, and privacy and data security.