Reginald S. Evans joined the Firm in February 2003 as Counsel to the Firm and became a shareholder in January 2004. He is chairman of the firm’s Corporate and Financial Services Department and the Automotive Group. Mr. Evans represents banking, automotive industry, government relations, general business, and bond and loan program clients. He was the Chief Counsel to the Pennsylvania Department of Banking, as assigned by the Pennsylvania Office of General Counsel, from 1995 to 2003. Prior to 1995, Mr. Evans was Deputy Chief Counsel to the Pennsylvania Department of Banking, Assistant Counsel to the then Pennsylvania Department of Commerce (now titled Department of Community and Economic Development). and Assistant Solicitor to the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Evans provides legal counsel to banking and automotive industry trade associations and their members on federal and state legislative, regulatory, enforcement, and finance issues. Mr. Evans is a frequent speaker at banking and regulatory trade association events and seminars. He has written and had published numerous articles and presentation materials on banking and automotive regulatory and finance issues. Mr. Evans' practice emphasizes federal and state banking regulation, vehicle industry regulation and finance, government relations, and Pennsylvania state government business loan programs. Mr. Evans’ practice includes bank, savings association, credit union, and licensee regulatory compliance and enforcement issues under federal and state law; automotive industry regulatory law; vehicle finance; vehicle manufacturer, dealer, and salesperson licensure and enforcement defense; interstate banking and branching; de novo bank, savings association, credit union, and licensee formation; banking structures involving financial holding companies, bank holding companies, savings and loan holding companies, financial subsidiaries, operating subsidiaries; banking and automotive industry legislation and regulation analysis, advice, drafting, and representation before legislative and regulatory government officials; charter conversions; mergers and acquisitions; trust company and trust department issues; mutual savings bank holding company reorganizations; mutual and stock thrift institution issues; licensing and related regulatory compliance and enforcement issues under federal and state law involving residential first and secondary mortgage lenders and brokers, motor vehicle sales finance companies, installment sellers, collector-repossessors, consumer discount companies, money transmitters, check cashers, and pawnbrokers; and business financing from Pennsylvania state government business loan programs including the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority and the Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority. Mr. Evans speaks Spanish. Mr. Evans is authorized to practice law in both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York. Mr. Evans received his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center and his A. B. in History from Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences.