Christina Gattuso
Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Chris Gattuso is the leader of the Financial Institutions Team at Kilpatrick Townsend. She focuses her practice on corporate and securities matters, financial institution regulatory matters, and mergers and acquisitions. Chris’s securities practice includes serving as counsel for both issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities and counseling clients on disclosure and other requirements under the federal securities laws. She has represented numerous mutual savings associations in their conversion to stock form or formation of a mutual holding company and related public offerings. Chris has extensive experience in corporate reorganizations, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions for both public and private financial institutions and other for-profit and nonprofit entities. She also advises boards of directors and board committees of financial institutions and nonprofits on corporate governance matters and best practices.
Chris has published articles and spoken at various conferences and seminars on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, financial institutions law and regulation, cybersecurity, bank and fintech partnerships, and bank examinations and enforcement matters.
Chris was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® in 2023 and the five years immediately preceding for Financial Services Regulation Law and Banking and Finance Law and was recommended by Legal 500 US in 2020 - 2022 for Mergers & Acquisitions. She was also selected as a Washington D.C. “Super Lawyer” in the area of Securities and Corporate Finance by Super Lawyers magazine from 2014 – 2021.