Ben Sones

Ben Sones focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, bank regulatory law, and corporate law. Ben’s primary emphasis is on serving the needs of the community banking industry, including:

• Strategic planning
• Holding company, bank, and bank subsidiary mergers and acquisitions
• Branching and interstate branching
• Bank holding company formation
• Stock issuances
• Regulatory compliance issues
• Regulatory examination issues
• TARP and SBLF funding and compliance
• CDFI certification, compliance, and grant programs

Ben also has experience representing companies both small and large in various industries with regard to corporate and transactional matters, as well as some experience in business and estate litigation.

Ben received his B.A., summa cum laude, in Mathematics from Mississippi College, where he was a Presidential Scholar, with Distinction, and earned the Perry Award, awarded to the top student in the department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Ben graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was the Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Law Scholar (a full academic scholarship) and served as Student Writing Editor for the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and President of the Law School Ambassadors, an organization devoted to student recruiting and alumni affairs.

Ben is a member of the Mississippi, Tennessee, and American Bar Associations, the Mississippi Bankers Association, the Mississippi Young Bankers, and the Bank Counsel Section of the Louisiana Bankers Association. He has lectured on bank regulatory matters for numerous groups of bankers, including at various Mississippi Bankers Association events.

Ben and his wife Estelle have four children and attend Pear Orchard Presbyterian Church in Ridgeland, Mississippi.