Robert A Gamble

Practice Areas

Robert Gamble, known as Beau to friends and clients, has a law practice spanning over five decades and two prominent law firms. He helps banks, holding companies, senior bank officers, community bankers, and financial institutions with mergers and acquisitions, regulatory matters, and corporate governance.

Beau advises community and state banks, as well as bank holding companies and bank subsidiaries, through the process of merging with, acquiring, or being acquired by, other banks. Since a merger and/or acquisition is the most important transaction a bank or a bank holding company will make; Beau aims to make an already stressful situation less so.

Over his long career and as outside General Counsel for the Iowa Bankers Association, Beau has formed relationships with regulators, opposing counsel, rural lawyers, community bankers, and banks across Iowa and the Midwest. These relationships, along with Beau’s knowledge, provide his clients with a professional, collegial experience.

Through Beau’s M&A practice, and through his relationship with Iowa Bankers Association, he has developed a rapport with state regulators, making it easier for him to communicate on behalf of his clients and gain the necessary regulatory approvals for the transaction.

He also represents financial institution clients before various regulatory bodies, including the Iowa Division of Banking, the FDIC, the OCC, and the Federal Reserve.

Beau often helps the boards of banks and bank subsidiaries with their corporate governance. This includes the preparation of articles of incorporation, bylaws, buy-sell agreements, escrow agreements, and executive employment agreements. Additionally, when banks are merging or acquiring another bank(s), Beau is there to help with shareholder and board of directors’ approval and relations.