Spencer A. Sloan

A Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Financial Institutions Practice, Spencer Sloan’s practice focuses on advising domestic and international financial institutions, their affiliates and counterparties in connection with regulatory, supervisory, enforcement and transactional matters.

Spencer regularly counsels U.S. and foreign banks, other regulated financial services firms and their investors in connection with mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, and capital markets transactions. He also advises banking clients on regulatory compliance matters, new activities and charters, and routinely practices before the major financial services regulators, including the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as well as state banking regulators. Spencer was recently recognized as a Law360 “Rising Star” in the banking sector.

Examples of Spencer’s work includes advising:

• U.S. Bancorp in its $8 billion acquisition of MUFG Union Bank’s core regional banking franchise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
• TD Bank in its $26 billion sale of TD Ameritrade to The Charles Schwab Corp., its $4 billion acquisition of Scottrade Financial and its $1.3 billion acquisition of Cowen
• TCF Financial Corporation in its merger with Huntington Bancshares and its $3.5 billion merger of equals with Chemical Financial
• People’s United Financial in its $7.6 billion sale to M&T Bank and four community bank acquisitions
• Fifth Third in its $4.7 billion acquisition of MB Financial
• Synovus in its $2.9 billion acquisition of Florida Community Bank
• IBERIABANK in its merger of equals with First Horizon National and in its acquisitions of Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust and Sabadell United Bank
• KeyCorp in its $4.1 billion acquisition of First Niagara Financial Group
• EverBank in its proposed $261 million acquisition of Sterling Bank & Trust
• BTG Pactual in its entry into the U.S. banking market through its proposed acquisition of M.Y. Safra Bank
• Webster Financial Corporation in the formation of a private credit joint venture with Marathon Asset Management
• Stone Point Capital and its portfolio companies in various transactions, including the acquisitions of Ascensus and Ascensus’ acquisition of Newport Group, and the joint purchase with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice of Truist Bank's insurance brokerage business
• Bayview Asset Management in its investment in TIAA Bank

Spencer received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a James Kent Scholar. He received his B.A., with high distinction, from the University of Virginia. He is admitted to practice in New York.