Amy J. Tawney

Amy Tawney focuses her practice on banking law, mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and regulatory matters. She is admitted to practice in West Virginia and Virginia.

Her banking practice involves advising clients on compliance with federal and state regulations, corporate governance issues, compliance with securities laws, structuring partnerships with FinTech companies, and drafting loan documentation for corporate loan transactions.

Amy’s merger and acquisition practice involves structuring, documenting and managing mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and other corporate transactions. 

She also represents issuers and purchasers of securities in a variety of public and private transactions, including public offerings, preferred and debt offerings and private placement offerings.

In addition to her bank regulatory practice, Amy represents racetracks and casinos in connection with approvals of financing transactions and acquisitions before the West Virginia Lottery Commission and the West Virginia Racing Commission. She also advises gaming entities on regulatory requirements and assisting gaming entities with licensure and structural changes.

She also provides general corporate services to all sizes of businesses, including assistance with business formation, commercial lease and contract review, and venture capital and other private financing.

• Bowles Rice Executive Committee Member (2016-2019)

Successfully completed the following banking transactions:

• A registered common stock rights offering;
• The issuance of common stock in connection with private equity investment in public clients;
• Private placements of subordinated debt securities by several bank holding companies;
• Private placement of preferred stock of West Virginia bank holding company;
• The acquisition of a bank holding company and its banking subsidiary headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina with an approximate transaction value of $1.1 billion;
• The acquisition of a bank holding company and its Virginia banking subsidiary with an approximate transaction value of $300 million;
• The acquisition of a Virginia bank holding company and its Virginia subsidiary bank having a presence in northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., with an approximate transaction value of $912 million;
• The acquisition of a Virginia bank holding company and its Virginia subsidiary bank having a presence in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., with an approximate transaction value of $490 million;
• The acquisition of a privately held community bank headquartered in Washington, D.C., with an approximate transaction value of $269 million;
• The acquisition of a West Virginia bank holding company and its West Virginia subsidiary bank having a presence in West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, with an approximate transaction value of $186.9 million;
• The acquisition of a Maryland bank holding company and its Maryland subsidiary bank having a presence in northern Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland, with an approximate transaction value of $109 million;
• The acquisition of a bank holding company headquartered in Washington, D.C. and its national bank subsidiary bank having a presence in northern Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland, with an approximate transaction value of $62.5 million;
• The sale of a West Virginia bank holding company and its West Virginia subsidiary bank having a presence in southwestern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia, with an approximate transaction value of $43 million;
• The acquisition of a Virginia bank having a presence in Richmond, Virginia, with an approximate transaction value of $40.6 million;
• The acquisition of a bank holding company and its West Virginia banking subsidiary with an approximate transaction value of $28.5 million; 
• The acquisition of a Virginia bank holding company and its Virginia subsidiary bank having a presence in northwestern Virginia, with an approximate transaction value of $22 million; 
• The sale of a West Virginia community bank in southern West Virginia, with an approximate transaction value of $7.4 million; 
• The acquisition of a Kentucky bank holding company, with an approximate transaction value of #21 million;
• The acquisition of a North Carolina bank holding company and its North Carolina subsidiary bank, with an approximate transaction value of $110 million; and
• A merger of equals transaction involving a West Virginia bank holding company and its West Virginia subsidiary bank, with an approximate transaction value of $370 million.

Successfully completed the following transactions not involving banking entities:

• The sale of the stock of West Virginia corporations involved in the building materials business, with an approximate transaction value of over $21 million;
• The sale of the stock of West Virginia businesses in the environmental services business, with an approximate transaction value of $55 million;
• The acquisition of several restaurants in West Virginia;
• The acquisition and sale of several car dealerships and motorcycle dealerships in West Virginia and Kentucky;
• The acquisition of the stock and assets of several West Virginia corporations involved in the construction business;
• The acquisition of the stock and assets of West Virginia limited liability companies involved in the environmental service business, with an approximate transaction value of over $24 million;
• The acquisition of the assets of West Virginia corporation involved in the insurance business, with an approximate transaction value of over $2.5 million;
• The acquisition of the assets of West Virginia corporation involved in the trucking business, with an approximate transaction value of over $22 million;
• The acquisition of the stock of Virginia corporation involved in the consulting business, with an approximate transaction value of over $30 million;
• The acquisition of the equity of a West Virginia limited liability company involved in the concrete and block business, with an approximate transaction value of over $15 million; and
• The acquisition of the assets of a Pennsylvania corporation involved in the equipment rental business, with an approximate transaction value of over $75 million.

Successfully completed private placement transactions ranging from $400,000 to $75 million; and registration of securities on Forms S-3 and S-4.

• West Virginia Bar Foundation Fellow
• Named to The Best Lawyers in America ® (Banking and Finance Law; Corporate Law; and Cannabis Law) 2011-present
• Named Best Lawyers’ Lawyer of the Year in the southern West Virginia region (Banking and Finance Law - 2023 and 2021)
• Recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business among “Leaders in their Field” for Corporate/Commercial and Corporate/Commercial:  Banking & Finance
• Named by West Virginia Super Lawyers as a Rising Star (Banking), 2013
• West Virginia University College of Law Order of the Coif

• American Bar Association
• West Virginia Bar Association

Current: 

• Member of Christ Church United Methodist Staff Parish Relations Committee
• Member of Board of West Virginia Mansion Preservation Foundation, Inc.

Former:

• Capital Midwestern Little League (Treasurer and Volunteer Coach)
• Christ Church United Methodist Elementary Sunday School Teacher