Maripat Alpuche is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department, concentrating in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions for financial institutions.  Ms. Alpuche has worked on many of the largest mergers in the financial institutions industry, including Mellon Financial Corporation’s merger with The Bank of New York Company, Inc. ($29 billion); JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s merger with Bank One Corporation ($58 billion); Manulife Financial Corporation’s acquisition of John Hancock Financial Services ($11 billion); Wachovia Corporation’s merger with First Union Corporation ($13.14 billion) and its successful hostile takeover defense against SunTrust Banks ($13.7 billion); and Chase Manhattan Corporation’s acquisition of J.P. Morgan & Co. ($34 billion). 

Since the financial crisis Ms. Alpuche has assisted financial institutions, underwriters and investors in connection with numerous public and private capital raising transactions.  Representative transactions included representation of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in its $5 billion common stock offering to repay TARP; representation of the underwriters in significant public equity offerings by Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. ($1.9 billion), Fulton Financial Corporation ($230 million), Susquehanna Bancshares ($350 million) and E*Trade Financial ($381 million); representation of The Carlyle Group in connection with its investments in the recapitalizations of FNB United ($310 million), Hampton Roads Bankshares ($255 million), Brand Banking Co. ($200 million) and Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. ($170 million); representation of Hamilton State Bancshares in its recapitalization ($231 million); representation of several investors in connection with the acquisition of assets and liabilities of IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB ($13.9 billion) and BankUnited ($900 million) from the FDIC; and representation of investors in the subsequent initial public offering of BankUnited.

Other M&A representations in the financial services area include representation of Washington Mutual, Inc. in its equity capital raising transaction ($7 billion) and its sale of its consumer finance operations to Citigroup ($1.25 billion); and Wachovia Corporation in its acquisition of A.G. Edwards, Inc. ($6.8 billion) and its retail brokerage venture with Prudential Financial Inc. ($1 billion).

Ms. Alpuche has also represented a variety of clients in connection with a number of major credit card portfolio transactions, including Federated Department Stores, Inc. ($7.4 billion); The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. ($640 million); Dillard’s Inc. ($1.25 billion); Best Buy Co. Inc. (undisclosed); Chase Manhattan Corporation ($8 billion); and Wachovia Corporation ($1.9 billion). 

Transactions outside the financial institutions area include the merger of Adolph Coors Company and Molson, Inc. ($6 billion); Smithfield Foods, Inc.’s acquisition of Premium Standard Farms, Inc. ($810 million); Hellman & Friedman’s acquisition of AlixPartners LLP ($296 million); Ingersoll Rand’s sale of its Engineered Solutions Unit ($840 million); and The Seagram Company Ltd.’s merger with Vivendi S.A. and Canal Plus ($55 billion).

Ms. Alpuche was recently recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2010, where clients praised her “excellent substantive expertise with strong industry knowledge.”

Publications

•	Regulating Systemically Important Financial Companies
•	Financial Stability Oversight Council Releases Proposed Rules and Interpretive Guidance on Designations of Systemically Important Nonbank Financial Companies
•	Regulations Proposed to Implement the Volcker Rule
•	Federal Reserve Issues Regulations for Savings and Loan Holding Companies
•	Reflections on Dodd-Frank: A Look Back and a Look Forward
•	Federal Reserve Proposes Changes to Regulation Z to Implement New “Ability-to-Repay” Requirement for Residential Mortgage Loans
•	U.S. Banking Regulators Order Changes to Policies and Practices of Major Mortgage Servicers
•	Securitization After Dodd-Frank: A Look at the Proposed Risk Retention Rules
•	Federal Reserve Issues Proposed Transition Rules for “Volcker Rule” Compliance
•	U.S. Congress Nears Completion of Landmark Financial Services Reform Legislation
•	The Impact on Private Equity and Hedge Funds of the Financial Regulatory Reform Bills: A Legislative Update
•	FDIC Issues Guidance on Policy Statement for Investments in Failed Banks
•	FDIC Adopts Final Statement of Policy on Private Investor Purchases of Failed Banks
•	FDIC Proposed Policy Statement on Private Capital Investor Purchases of Failed Banks
•	Treasury Department Outlines Reforms to U.S. Financial Supervision and Regulation
•	U.S. Treasury Department Unveils New Financial Stability Plan
•	Restructuring Public Debt – An Overview of the Legal Framework
•	Federal Reserve Issues Final Rules on Trust Preferred and Other Capital Instruments
•	Delaware Supreme Court's NCS Healthcare Decision May Limit Effectiveness of Voting Agreements From Majority Stockholders as Deal Protection Measures (December 2002)

Speaking Engagements

•	Maripat Alpuche to Speak at PLI's "A Guide to Financial Institutions 2012" Program on March 6, 2012 January 17, 2012
•	Maripat Alpuche Participates in New York City Bar’s Conference on Dodd-Frank October 28, 2010

Admissions

•	New York 1992

Education

•	Columbia Law School, 1990 J.D. Stone Scholar; Columbia Law Review, 1989-1990, Articles Editor 1990
•	Franklin & Marshall College, 1987 B.A. magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa