K&L Gates : Professionals : Stanley V. Ragalevsky

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Stanley V. Ragalevsky	Partner
Boston +1.617.951.9203	Fax +1.617.261.3175
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Areas of Practice • Professional/Civic Activities • Speaking Engagements • Court Admissions • Bar Admissions • Education • Additional Information

Areas of Practice

Mr. Ragalevsky deals with the business and regulatory issue of financial institutions - capital adequacy, regulatory compliance, safety and soundness, governance, charterings, holding companies, third party outsourcing, mergers and restructurings, asset securitization, loan and investment issues, examination problems, bank policies, risk management issues, succession planning, financial institution insolvencies and regulatory enforcement orders. He has extensive experience in lending powers issues, loan participations, problem loans and loan workouts.

He designed the K&L Gates Financial Services Gateway, a comprehensive information resource freely available on the Internet for banks and financial service firms and professionals serving those organizations.

Mr. Ragalevsky has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers In America in the specialty of Banking Law.

Professional/Civic Activities

American Bar Association
Boston Bar Association
Massachusetts Bankers Association
Town of Topsfield (various town boards and commissions)

Speaking Engagements

Frequent contributor on financial institution issues to financial services organizations including the Independent Community Bankers of America, Massachusetts Bankers Association, California Bankers Association, The Knowledge Congress, America’s Community Bankers, and other groups on a range of banking and legal issues, including corporate governance, internal controls, mutual thrift institutions, director succession planning, mergers, insider lending, charter alternatives, mutual holding companies, corporate organizations, loan participations, troubled real estate and lending practices and policies.

Court Admissions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1973)
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1978)
United States District Court – Massachusetts (1974)
United States Supreme Court (1981)

Bar Admissions

Bar of Massachusetts

Education

J.D., Harvard Law School (1973)
A.B., Boston College (1970) (magna cum laude)

Additional Information

Mr. Ragalevsky has also written over one dozen monographs, including ABA Bank Directors' Guide to Management Succession Planning, Massachusetts Bank Lending Powers Handbook, Third Party Outsourcing, Insider Lending and Proper Corporate Minutes, co-authored Asset Planning and Protection Strategies, and contributed fifteen articles to trade journals, including The Banking Law Journal, Banker & Tradesman, The National Law Journal, Community Banker and Massachusetts Banker. He also comments upon banking issues for a number of banking and business publications.