Gary Bronstein is a partner and team leader of the financial services team at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP.  Mr. Bronstein provides a broad spectrum of strategic advice to financial institutions and public company clients.  He concentrates on initial public offerings and other specialized capital raising transactions, mergers and acquisitions, proxy contests and a host of other corporate and securities law matters.  Mr. Bronstein has extensive experience with financial institution enforcement cases creating resolution strategies, negotiating settlements and leading internal investigations.  Mr. Bronstein advises on corporate governance for public company clients and clients that have been the subject of enforcement proceedings.  Mr. Bronstein was recognized in 2020 and the seven years immediately preceding as a Washington D.C. “Super Lawyer” in the area of securities and corporate finance by Super Lawyers magazine, and was also recommended by Legal 500 US for mergers and acquisitions in 2020 and the four years immediately preceding.

Rusty Conner is a partner at Covington & Burling LLP.  Mr. Conner has for more than 30 years advised senior management and boards of directors in devising creative solutions for achieving their strategic goals and addressing their significant challenges.  His practice is focused on M&A, corporate finance, corporate governance and related strategic matters.  He has expertise in the financial services sector having worked on more than 600 M&A and capital markets transactions with aggregate deal value in excess of $200 billion, including some of the largest and most complex transactions since the advent of consolidation in the banking industry in the 1980s.  Mr. Conner was named to The National Law Journal’s inaugural list of “Finance, Banking, & Capital Markets Trailblazers” in 2019 and holds rankings on Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America, Legal 500 US and Washington DC Super Lawyers.

Frank Sorrentino is managing director in the financial institutions group at Stephens, Inc.  He is responsible for investment banking coverage of banks and thrifts in the Northeast region of the United States and other select markets in the southeast and southwestern United States. 

Prior to joining Stephens, Mr. Sorrentino spent 4 years at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in the investment banking division and spent nearly 7 years before that at FinPro, Inc., a community bank consultant and M&A advisory firm.  Throughout his career, Mr. Sorrentino has been part of over 40 M&A and capital raising transactions with an aggregate value of over $5 billion.

Mr. Sorrentino is a CFA charterholder and member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Jack Milligan is editor-at-large of Bank Director magazine, a position to which he brings over 40 years of experience in financial journalism organizations. Mr. Milligan directs Bank Director’s editorial coverage and leads its director training efforts. He has a master’s degree in Journalism from The Ohio State University.