Paul Compton
Compton Jones Dresher LLP
Recognized since 2001
Birmingham, Alabama
Banking and Finance Law
Corporate Law
Financial Services Regulation Law
Real Estate Law
Securities / Capital Markets Law
Securitization and Structured Finance Law
Paul Compton has broad experience in innovative commercial financing transactions, particularly those involving tax credits (federal and state LIHTC, historic, state industrial incentive, new markets, work opportunity and CAPCO) and structured finance, and in the formation and sale of regulated financial institutions (banks, insurance companies and agencies, consumer finance companies, broker/dealers and community development entities).
Paul has a strong understanding of operational and financial aspects of the banking and insurance businesses and extensive experience with their regulators. He has been involved in hundreds of transactions, including:
Over 50 acquisitions and sales of depository institutions;
Over 200 transactions involving low income housing tax credits (federal, Georgia and North Carolina) for equity investors, lenders, credit support providers and developers, including more than 40 involving private activity bond financed developments; and
Over fifteen de novo formations of banks, bank holding companies and insurance companies.
Contact & Links
- Lawyer Page: https://www.cjdattorneys.com/attorneys
Location
- 2170 Highland Avenue South, Suite 250
Birmingham, AL 35233
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, Alabama State Bar Association
- Georgia, State Bar of Georgia
Affiliations
- Alabama Bankers Association, Inc. - Member
- Alabama Consumer Finance Association - Counsel of Record
- Alabama Council for Affordable and Rural Housing - General Counsel
- American Bar Association - Member
- Newcomen Society of Alabama - Member
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
- Financial Services Regulation Law, Birmingham (2023)
- Financial Services Regulation Law, Birmingham (2017)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers® in America 2023 for work in:
- Banking and Finance Law
- Corporate Law
- Financial Services Regulation Law
- Real Estate Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Securitization and Structured Finance Law
Special Focus:
- Banking
- Capital Markets
- Captive Insurance Companies
- Commercial Finance
- Community Development Finance
- Consumer Finance
- Corporate Compliance
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Financial Services
- General Corporate
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mortgage-Backed Securities
- New Bank Formations
- Partnership and Limited Liability
- Real Estate
- Regulatory
- Reinsurance
- Securities
- Securitization
- Structured Finance
- Tax
- Transactions
Awards:
- Listed in Chambers USA®
- Regional Finalist, White House Fellowship Program, Office of the President of the United States, 1996
- Listed in Alabama Super Lawyers, Banking, 2008–2013
- Securities/Capital Markets Law, 2007–2014
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