Ledina Gocaj is Counsel in the Corporate Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Ledina advises banks, fintechs and other financial institutions on a broad range of transactional, regulatory and supervisory matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, purchase and assumption transactions of failed banks, chartering of new banks, enforcement actions and appeals of supervisory determinations before the bank regulatory agencies.

Previously, Ledina served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, where she advised the Chairman and Deputy to the Chairman for Policy on a broad range of regulatory guidance, rulemakings, publications, economic research and other agency matters.  Earlier in her career, she worked in the investment banking arm of a global systemically important bank.

Ledina received an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.  Following graduation from Harvard, Ledina served as a law clerk to the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Selected representations include:

• Coinbase in its participation in Open Standard and the Open USD stablecoin
• Hancock Whitney Corporation in its $377.6 million acquisition of OFB Bancshares
• Webster Financial in its $12.3 billion acquisition by Santander
• Varo in its $123.9 million growth investment led by Warburg Pincus and Coliseum Capital Management, LLC
• Prosperity Bancshares in multiple transactions, including its acquisitions of:
  • Stellar Bancorp
  • Southwest Bancshares
  • American Bank Holding Corporation
• Capital One in multiple transactions, including:
  • $5.15 billion acquisition of Brex Inc.
  • $35.3 billion acquisition of Discover Financial
• The Goldman Sachs Group in multiple transactions, including:
  • Over $20 billion sale of its Apple credit card portfolio to Chase
  • $2 billion acquisition of Innovator Capital Management
• Warburg Pincus in multiple transactions, including:
  • Investment in OceanFirst in connection with OceanFirst’s acquisition of Flushing Financial
  • Sale of Warburg Pincus’ majority interest in the parent partnership of Kestra to Stone Point Capital
• Associated Banc-Corp in its $604 million acquisition of American National
• Green Dot Corporation in its $1.1 billion acquisition by Smith Ventures and CommerceOne
• Charles Schwab in its $660 million acquisition of Forge Global
• Huntington Bancshares in multiple transactions, including:
  • $7.4 billion acquisition of Cadence Bank
  • $1.9 billion acquisition of Veritex Holdings
• NBHC in its $369.1 million acquisition of Vista and Vista Bank
• PNC in its $4.1 billion acquisition of FirstBank
• Dayforce in its $12.3 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
• TowneBank in multiple transactions, including its acquisitions of Dogwood State Bank and Old Point Financial Corporation
• Synovus in its $17 billion all-stock combination with Pinnacle Financial Partners
• Triumph Financial in its $160 million acquisition of Greenscreens.ai