Practice Areas: Banking, Corporate and Real Estate, Securities

Sandy Mayuga joined Keesal Young & Logan as Of Counsel in its Long Beach office in April of 2004.  He is a business and transactional lawyer with extensive experience in forming and financing new businesses, including preparation of private and public offerings of equity, debt and hybrid securities, mergers and acquisitions, financing and leasing, regulatory matters, and the documentation of a wide variety of business transactions, including reorganizations, dissolutions, joint ventures, license applications for new businesses, real estate transactions, employment agreements, employee benefit plans, shareholder agreements and shareholder and director meetings.

While he continues to represent businesses generally, for over 25 years he has focused on representing financial institutions of all types, including federally-insured commercial banks, savings associations and industrial banks regulated by state and federal agencies, asset-based lenders, mortgage bankers, mortgage brokers and escrow companies.  His representation of financial institutions includes applications for de novo banks and thrifts, acquisitions and mergers, charter conversions, holding company formations and other regulatory applications, offerings of equity and debt, real estate and employment transactions, regulatory compliance, defense of regulatory enforcement actions, including administrative hearings, and structuring and documenting complex corporate transactions and lending programs.

He is well known to and respected by the legal and supervisory staffs of the regulatory agencies with whom he deals, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the California Department of Financial Institutions and other federal and state banking regulators.  In 1988 Mr. Mayuga was appointed by the California Commissioner of Corporations to the Commissioner's Industrial Bank Advisory Committee, which advised the Commissioner on matters relating to legislative, regulatory and operational matters pertaining to industrial banks.  In 1991 he was appointed to the Financial Institutions Committee of the Business Law Sections of the State Bar of California.

Mr. Mayuga is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., 1974), and the University of California, Santa Barbara (A.B., political science, magna cum laude, 1970).  While at the University of Pennsylvania, he studied extensively at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce and earned the Raymond A. Speiser Award for Excellence in Field Research.  He also earned a Certificate in Private International Law at the Academie du Droit Internationale de la Haye (1974) and a Certificate from the Universite Libres du Bruxelles (1974) in the Law of the European Economic Communities.

Upon graduation he joined the law firm of Macdonald, Halstead & Laybourne in Los Angeles (now Baker & McKenzie) and in 1977 became Assistant General Counsel, Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc., a subsidiary of Norton Simon, Inc.  In late 1978 he joined the law firm of Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz in Long Beach, and in 1980 he joined New York-based Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine, Underberg, Manley & Casey, practicing in the Corporate Transactions and Finance, the International Tax and the Financial Institutions Departments of that firm, in which he was elected a partner in 1982.  Mr. Mayuga practiced as a solo practitioner starting in late 1985, then merged his practice as a partner with the Century City law firm of Tisdale & Nicholson, LLP, in 1994.

Starting in 1970, Mr. Mayuga served in the U.S. Air Force (Regular and Reserve), retiring in 1988 as a Major in the Air Force Intelligence Service.  He serves as Secretary of the British United Services Club of Los Angeles, a multi-service veterans club supporting Junior ROTC Programs in Los Angeles area high schools.  He is also President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Long Beach Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, which serves over 10,000 youth in the Long Beach-Lakewood-Bellflower metropolitan area.  In July, 2007 he commenced a three-year term on the Board of Directors of Leadership Long Beach, a civic improvement program dedicated to developing community leaders.

E-mail: sandor.mayuga@kyl.com

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