Overview
Jeff Kuras is a corporate attorney with extensive experience representing public companies and financial institutions on securities issues, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters.
- Represents commercial banks and their holding companies regarding regulatory and enforcement issues, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and corporate governance
- Counsels public companies with respect to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, public offerings, and compliance issues
Services
Experience
Representative Matters
Representative Clients
- Represents a bank holding company headquartered in Michigan and listed on Nasdaq, with its primary operations based in Michigan and Wisconsin
- Represents a bank holding company headquartered in Michigan and listed on Nasdaq, with its primary operations based in California, Washington, and New York
- Counsels a specialty pharmacy headquartered in Michigan and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
- Represents a fully integrated provider of residential and commercial high-speed data, video, and telephony services, headquartered in Colorado, an SEC reporting company after an A/B exchange offer
- Advises a Michigan-based investment advisory firm focused on financial institutions
Recent Transactions
- Represented publicly held bank holding company in $41.6 million all-stock merger
- Represented publicly held bank holding company in $34.6 million follow-on offering of common stock (Nasdaq)
- $180 million initial public offering of common stock (Nasdaq) for bank holding company
- $34.6 million initial public offering of common stock (Nasdaq) for a property and casualty insurance company
- $285 million follow-on offering of common stock (NYSE) for a specialty pharmacy
- Represented publicly held bank holding company in cash stock merger
- $199 million initial public offering of common stock (NYSE) for a specialty pharmacy
- $1.1 billion A/B exchange offer of senior notes and senior subordinated notes of a high-speed data, video, and telephony company
- Represented publicly held bank holding company in rights offering, private investment, and auction of TARP securities
- Represented Capitol Bancorp Ltd., a bank holding company with a network of banks and bank operations in ten states and total consolidated assets of approximately $2.0 billion, in its Chapter 11, pre-packaged plan of reorganization
- Represented bank holding company in separate bank divestitures in Michigan, California, North Carolina, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, and Arizona
Credentials
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.
- cum laude
University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
- cum laude
Admissions
- Michigan
Recognition
Awards
The Best Lawyers in America, 2023
- Recognized in practice area of Banking and Finance Law
Michigan Super Lawyers, Recognized as a Rising Star, 2008, 2012, and 2015-2016
Professional & Community Involvement
State Bar of Michigan
American Bar Association
- Section of Business Law