Alston & Bird represented FB Financial Corporation, the Tennessee-headquartered parent company of FirstBank, in its $381 million acquisition of Alabama-headquartered Southern States Bancshares Inc., the parent company of Southern States Bank.
Representing FB Financial was an Alston & Bird team led by partners Mark Kanaly and Will Hooper, partner Cliff Stanford, senior associate John Hobgood, and associate Morgan Geurts (Financial Services); counsel Kerry Wenzel and associate Bria Smith (Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation); and partner Heather Ripley (Federal & International Tax).