Collin Janus

Collin Janus is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Financial Institutions Practice. Based in Washington, D.C., Collin advises domestic and international financial institutions and investors in connection with acquisitions, investments, activities, capital, insolvency, and other regulatory, transactional and enforcement matters. He routinely represents clients before all of the primary federal banking regulators, including the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and before U.S. state banking regulators. Collin also formerly held advisory roles at significant banks and financial institutions, uniquely positioning him to provide sophisticated commercial advice to his clients.

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes representing:

• Banc of California in its merger with PacWest Bancorp, concurrent capital raise from Warburg Pincus and Centerbridge, and conversion of the resulting institution to a state member bank
• Flagstar Bancorp in its merger with New York Community Bancorp, and later advising New York Community Bancorp in its $1 billion capital raising transaction led by three prominent private equity firms
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in various matters, including its investments in The Bank of East Asia, Ltd., Ares Management Corporation, and Jefferies Financial Group, among others
• LendingClub Corporation in regulatory matters in connection with its acquisition of a national bank and transition to become a bank holding company
• OceanFirst Financial Corporation in its separate acquisitions of multiple publicly traded and privately held community bank and thrift organizations
• Veritex Holdings in its minority investment in Thrive Mortgage and sale of Thrive to Lower
• Citigroup in numerous matters, including divestitures of significant U.S. and non-U.S. businesses and minority investments
• Viking Global Investors, as special counsel, in its controlling investment in Rockefeller Capital Management
• Zip Co Limited in its acquisition of QuadPay Inc.
• A European online bank in regulatory matters related to its entry into the U.S.
• A bank undertaking a new strategy in addressing supervisory and enforcement matters related to governance, internal controls and compliance
• A large non-U.S. bank in the approval and licensing of new offices in the U.S.
• A global bank holding company in complying with the activity and investment limitations of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956

Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Collin was an attorney at another international law firm. Prior to attending law school, he was a certified public accountant and auditor at a large international accounting firm. Collin received his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2008, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was the recipient of the Summer Public Service Fellowship, American Bankruptcy Institute Award, Attorney-CPA Foundation Scholarship, Dean’s Academic Achievement Award and several other awards. He received his M.P.A. from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003 and his B.B.A. from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002, where he co-founded the school’s Beta Alpha Psi Chapter, was a member of the Institute of Management Accountants and received the Top Ten Accounting Graduate Award. Collin is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Illinois.