Grady & Associates is a Cleveland, Ohio-based boutique law firm whose nationwide practice focuses on a broad range of transactional and regulatory matters for financial institutions and related entities. The firm's practice is concentrated in the areas of executive compensation and employee benefits, purchase of bank-owned life insurance ("BOLI"), corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and regulatory matters.

The lawyers of Grady & Associates are recognized as leaders in rendering legal services to financial institutions. Founded in June, 1994, the firm represents 230 financial institutions and holding companies located throughout the United States. Our clients range in size from financial institutions with assets of less than $10 million to those with assets in excess of $43 billion. The firm's attorneys write and speak extensively for banking audiences. Mr. Grady's book, The New CRA: A Practical Guide to Compliance, was published in September 1996 by McGraw-Hill Publishing. For over a decade, Mr. Grady has been contributing author to Consumer Credit: Law, Transactions and Forms, a six volume treatise on consumer credit regulation published by Mathew Bender, a national publisher of legal and banking material. Our lawyers have authored more than 50 articles for the financial institutions industry (including the American Banker) and are frequent speakers at bank and thrift trade association gatherings. We have a long list of trade association executives who report that our programs are among the best they have offered their memberships.