Katie W. Branscum

Katie W. Branscum focuses her practice on securities law, mergers and acquisitions, contract drafting, real estate transactions, commercial transactions and corporate law. She advises financial institutions and corporations on general corporate matters including banking regulatory compliance, entity selection and formation, contract drafting and negotiation, and ongoing corporate governance issues

Experience

• Serves as counsel to numerous financial institutions, providing legal guidance on mergers and acquisitions, banking regulatory compliance, and lending and transactional matters.
• Advises corporations and other businesses on general corporate matters, including entity selection and formation, contract drafting and negotiation, and ongoing corporate governance issues.
• Manages various Securities and Exchange Commission filing requirements on behalf of public company clients by drafting and reviewing periodic reports, registration statements, and proxy statements.
• Represents clients in commercial real estate transactions concerning the conveyance, purchase, development, and leasing of property.
• Authored:  The Food Fight over Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods and a Natural Solution to Protect Agricultural Biotechnology in the Natural State, 39 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 461 (2017).

Professional Recognition

• The Best Lawyers in America©: "Ones to Watch" Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Real Estate Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law (2021)
• Arkansas Business 20 in their 20s, 2019
• Graduate, Leadership Greater Little Rock, Class XXXIV

Involvement

• Pulaski County Bar Association
• Arkansas Bar Association
• Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers
• Junior League of Little Rock
• Fellowship Bible Church

News & Articles

Firm News

• 47 Mitchell Williams Attorneys Named to 2021 Best Lawyers® List - 17 Named 2021 Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch; 7 Named 2021 Best Lawyers® "Lawyer of the Year"
• Mitchell Williams Attorneys Katie Branscum and Matt Brunson Presented at the Firm's Peer Speaker Series - Discussing How to Avoid Liability in the Workplace
• Mitchell Williams Attorney Katie Branscum Named an Arkansas Business 20 In Their 20s Honoree
• Mitchell Williams Attorney Katie Branscum Completes Leadership Greater Little Rock - Branscum Graduates Class XXXIV
• Mitchell Williams Attorney Katie Branscum Selected to Leadership Greater Little Rock Program
• Mitchell Williams Attorneys Scott Schallhorn, Chris McNulty and Katie Branscum Discuss Agricultural Lending at the Arkansas Bankers Association Mega Conference
• Mitchell Williams Attorneys Scott Schallhorn and Katie Branscum present at Member Cooperatives' Annual Continuing Legal Education Seminar
• Mitchell Williams Announces Bates, Branscum, Dodd and McElroy Join Firm

Articles

• Securities Litigation Results in Win for Broker and Clarifies Law in the Eighth Circuit
• Earnings Releases and Investor Calls in Light of COVID-19: SEC Chairman and Director of Corporation Finance Issue Joint Public Statement
• Considerations for Holding Virtual Annual Shareholder Meetings in Light of COVID-19
• Congress Passes Dodd Frank Rollback Bill
• Supreme Court Upholds Lawfulness of Class and Collective Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements
• Arkansas Legislature Prescribes Contractual Waiver of Jury Trial in Lending Agreements
• SEC Cracks Down on "Initial Coin Offerings"