Jason Kuwayama

Shareholder at Godfrey & Kahn

Speaker

Jason E. Kuwayama is a shareholder in the Banking practice, primarily in the firm’s Milwaukee office. His nationwide practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, corporate governance, and general securities matters.

Jason routinely represents state and federally chartered financial institutions in regulatory matters as well as corporate formation, corporate governance, and myriad M&A matters. His experience includes representing regional banks, community banks and mutual institutions in connection with whole-bank mergers and acquisitions, branch sales, capital and debt raises, and mutual-to-stock conversions.

Jason also represents financial institutions and private equity firms in connection with debt-side transactions, having acted as senior counsel for the purchase and sale of approximately $20 billion of commercial and residential/consumer assets in both performing and non-performing markets. He also assists institutions with the development of correspondent programs for the purchase, sale and securitization of loan portfolios.

In addition to his debt-side work, Jason also represents private equity investors with capital deployment as well as corporations seeking equity investments at various stages of their growth cycles. Jason routinely works with non-regulated corporations in a variety of concerns, including startup/formation, growth, restructuring, and exit.