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Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory

North Carolina

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Practice Areas

AI & Emerging Technologies

Bank Regulatory & Fintech

Compliance, Controls, & Risk Management

Financial Regulatory Advice & Response

Investment Funds & Investment Management

Litigation, Regulatory & White Collar

Regulatory Supervision & Response

Career

John Stoker advises clients on a broad array of compliance, regulatory management, and transactional matters. John leverages his 15 years of in house legal experience at large financial institutions to assist clients in navigating complex regulatory requirements to meet business and enterprise strategic objectives.

John brings extensive experience representing clients as senior in-house counsel and as a regulatory and compliance lawyer and provides legal advice on the interpretation and application of laws and regulations to financial products, services and operations, and strategic enterprise initiatives. He works directly with clients’ senior in-house counsel, compliance, enterprise risk, and finance teams and business leaders, and a wide variety of regulatory authorities bringing a pragmatic and organizational approach to reach desired outcomes.

Prior to joining the firm, John led the Corporate Regulatory Section of a global financial institution providing legal support on regulatory compliance requirements to business groups and to the company’s compliance, risk, finance and treasury, corporate development, government and regulatory relations, and other enterprise functions.

John directly advised on enterprise prudential requirements, including those associated with risk management standards, strategic investments, acquisitions, and divestitures and the permissibility of product and service offerings; served as a legal representative on various enterprise risk management governance committees; and led enterprise project teams for global regulatory licensing integration efforts in connection with mergers and acquisitions. He developed relationships with senior regulatory officials and worked closely on matters such as the permissibility of products and investments, strategic acquisitions, and supervisory and enforcement matters.

John continues to serve as a resource to in-house legal counsel and compliance professionals on supervisory trends and regulatory developments through the firm’s White Collar Defense, Investigations, and Regulatory Advice Blog and participation on speaking panels, including those with representatives from federal banking agencies and senior in-house regulatory counsel. He also is a regular speaker for the University of North Carolina Law School’s Banking Institute’s annual ABCs of Banking Law event. The panel for the annual event includes longstanding in-house and law firm regulatory practitioners who provide participants with an understanding of the legal framework governing the products, services, and operations of banks in the United States and the supervisory and enforcement framework that oversees them.

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John Stoker is an experienced lawyer who advises banks on financial product regulations. He is skilled as reviewing internal credit reporting and investment structures, as well as offering support to regional and global banking groups regarding remediation or market entry. His experience working as assistant general counsel of corporate regulatory at Wells Fargo bolsters his practice.

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John A. Stoker, Edward P. O’Keefe, Kathryn (Kate) G. Wellman, Neil T. Bloomfield
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