Amanda Allexon

Amanda K. Allexon is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Financial Institutions Practice. Based in Washington, D.C., Amanda combines nearly a decade of service at the Federal Reserve Board and robust private practice experience to advise domestic and foreign banks, bank holding companies, other regulated financial institutions, financial technology companies and investors on the full spectrum of transactional, regulatory, compliance, and supervisory/enforcement matters. She routinely assists clients obtain bank charters, effectuate complex high-profile mergers and acquisitions, make strategic investments, review and enhance compliance programs, and respond to supervisory actions. Leveraging her previous government experience, she routinely represents clients before the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and U.S. state banking regulators.

Joined Simpson Thacher as Partner in 2023, having previously been at another major U.S. law firm.

American Bar Association, Banking Committee; Federal Bar Association, Banking Law Section Executive Counsel; University of North Carolina Center for Banking and Finance’s Board of Advisors

Published in Law360, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, ABA Banking Law Committee Journal. Testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee.

J.D., American University Washington College of Law, 2004 (with honors, Note and Comment Editor of the American University Law Review); B.A., University of Iowa, 1999 (Economics and Political Science, Member of the A. Craig Baird Debate Forum).