Paul Compton

Paul Compton


Compton Jones Dresher LLP

Recognized since 2001

Birmingham, Alabama

Practice Areas

Banking and Finance Law

Corporate Law

Financial Services Regulation Law

Real Estate Law

Securities / Capital Markets Law

Securitization and Structured Finance Law

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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.

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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

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Financial Services Regulation Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2017 - Financial Services Regulation Law

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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