Bradley has hired the senior executive vice president and chief legal officer of Texas Regional Bank to join its banking and financial services practice group.
Jacque Kruppa joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner, Bradley announced in a press release Wednesday. She had been at Texas Regional Bank for about a year and a half and spent 17 years at Hunton Andrews Kurth prior to that.
The managing partner of Bradley’s Dallas office, John A. Bonnet III, issued a statement praising Kruppa’s “sophisticated understanding of the financial services and regulatory landscape,” and that her skills will allow the firm to “expand upon the M&A and compliance guidance we offer to our clients and to community banks in particular.”
“She is well regarded in the Texas banking industry and adds substantial depth to our financial services capabilities in Texas,” he said.
Over her 20-year legal career, Kruppa has advised banks on corporate, regulatory, compliance and transactional matters. She’s representing banks and bank holding companies in more than 90 M&A transactions and more than 60 private offerings of equity and debt security, the firm said.
Robert N. Flowers, a partner in Bradley’s Dallas office, said Kruppa’s “proficiency in providing corporate, securities and regulatory representation to commercial banks, holding companies and other financial institutions will be instrumental in Bradley’s continued representation of financial institutions across the firm’s markets and elsewhere.”
Kruppa earned a bachelor’s degree in finance in 2002 and is a 2006 graduate of the Southern Methodist University School of Law.
Bradley launched its Dallas office in 2019 and since then has tripled the number of attorneys based there, including the addition of a dozen lawyers in the last year.