Gary Steven Findley
Gary Steven Findley & Associates (a separate law firm)
Community Banking Legal Expertise
Gary Steven Findley, Esq. is President of Gary Steven Findley & Associates, a law firm specializing in banking law whose areas of expertise include regulatory relations/legal work, mergers and acquisitions, securities, corporate representation, regulatory enforcement action counseling, and capital restoration programs. Gary has been practicing for over 40 years and the Findley name has been synonymous with the community banking industry since the early 1960s when Gerry Findley started a management consulting practice. Gary often co-counsels with Dan Wheeler in serving clients in common.
Gary is a specialist in creating and legally shepherding new and innovative programs for financial institutions. In addition, he counsels boards of directors and senior managements on maintaining safe and sound financial conditions in a changing and challenging environment.
Gary provides not only legal analysis and representation but also incorporates financial consulting into his practice to provide financial clients with a different perspective in an ever-changing banking environment. Financial institutions, in this complex world of legal and regulatory initiatives, must receive the best in legal representation tempered with a specialized and knowledgeable understanding of the business of banking.
Gary provides a level of risk management and regulatory concurrence to legal processes that is not readily available from other law firms. For example, he and his team provide ongoing direction and support to the directors and management of independent banking institutions. He specializes in dealing with corporate organization and regulatory intervention, mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and filings, regulatory filings and intervention, expansion of new products and services and compensation program development. Gary Steven Findley & Associates provides legal guidance tempered with business banking knowledge to help institutions achieve "Premier Performance."
Gary has successfully led the organization of more “de novo” banks in California than any other single attorney in California, having overseen the chartering of over 120 institutions in his career. Gary has also worked on hundreds of merger transactions, the creation of new banking subsidiaries, holding companies and innovative products and services.
Gary is well known by all of the regulatory agencies that supervise community financial institutions and has an excellent working relationship with all of the agencies.
Findley Reports
Gary is also President and Editor of The Findley Reports Newsletter—an educational staple for boards and managements of financial institutions. Since 1967, The Findley Reports has been the foundation of the Findley Companies, providing valuable and accurate financial information to assist directors and managements in meeting the challenges and complexities of bank operations. The Findley Reports provides the banking industry with performance benchmarking through its annual designations of "Super Premier Performing," "Premier Performing," and "Commendable Performing" classifications.
These designations have become highly regarded and recipients are recognized throughout the Western United States as financial institutions achieving exceptional performance.
Through the work with the Findley Reports, Gary is also a director of the California Community Banking Network (“CCBN”) which provides educational programs and networking opportunities for community financial institution directors and officers in the Western United States. Gary has facilitated dozens of programs for CCBN and on an annual basis facilitates the CCBN Directors Roundtable and Top Banker Panel.
The Findley Group
Gary Findley is the Director of The Findley Group, a management consulting firm.
The Findley Group is recognized as a consulting leader in strategic planning, business planning, business valuation and professional development. The Findley Group operates on various functioning levels: broad-based financial consulting, strategic and capital development, facilitation of director and management planning retreats, management coaching, strategic alliance consulting, and creation of business plans that meet the needs of small businesses, nonprofit organizations, community-based public entities, and financial institutions.
The Findley Group's core competence is in establishing a strategic culture within organizations. One cannot rely on what has been done in the past to know how to survive and thrive in the future. Taking a new business approach to an existing way of doing business to achieve strategic objectives is a complex undertaking. The Findley Group understands the business of assessing every aspect of operations, every asset, every relationship, every program to determine capacity of an organization and through various methods provides clients with action plans for attaining successful performance results.
The Findley Group does more than analyze an organization’s needs. The Findley Group works with clients to establish thoughtful, informed and researched plans through a process that is transformational and time-tested in meeting long-term strategic goals so that the organization thrives into the future.
Over the years Gary, through The Findley Group, has facilitated hundreds of strategic planning meetings for boards and managements. All advised institutions are driven toward consistent Premier Performance.