Travers Collins & Company Investor Relations is uniquely experienced and specialized in serving publicly traded banks. The firm and its consultants have provided IR counsel and services to community banks including the following.
Bancshares of Florida, Inc. (OTC:BOFL.PK), a former NASDAQ-listed holding company located in Naples, FL, with $1.4 nillion in assets.
BSB Bancorp, Inc., formerly a NASDAQ-listed bank holding company with total assets of approximately $2.1 billion in Binghamton, NY, that was acquired by Partners Trust Financial Group, Inc. in 2004.
Community Bank System, Inc. (NYSE: CBU), a $5 billion asset regional community bank serving much of the non-urban, Upstate New York, and Northeastern Pennsylvania markets.
Empire of America Savings Bank, formerly an AMEX-listed federal savings bank in Buffalo, NY, with operations in five states and assets of about $14 billion.
Evans Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBN), a $600 million asset community banking organization located in Western New York.
First National Community Bancorp, Inc. (OTCBB: FNCB), a $1.3 billion asset bank headquartered in Dunmore, PA, with more than 20 branches serving four counties in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area.
First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FNFG), a $21 billion diversified financial services company with 250 branches across Upstate New York and Pennsylvania.
Great Lakes Bancorp, formerly a NYSE-listed, $900 million asset community bank holding company operating Greater Buffalo Savings Bank. Great Lakes and Greater Buffalo were acquired by First Niagara Financial Group.
Iroquois Bancorp, Inc., formerly a NASDAQ-listed, $600 million asset, central New York State community bank. Iroquois was acquired by First Niagara Financial Group.
Lake Shore Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: LSBK), a thrift holding company headquartered in Dunkirk, NY, with nine full-service branch locations in Chautauqua and Erie counties and more than $400 million in assets.
Landmark Savings Bank, formerly an AMEX-listed regional savings bank in Pittsburgh, PA, with about $1.5 billion in assets.
Partners Trust Financial Group (NASDAQ: PRTR), is the $3.7 billion asset holding company for Partners Trust Bank, which offers business and retail banking products as well as a full range of trust, investment, and municipal banking services through its 35 banking locations in Central New York.
TIB Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: TIBB), the Naples, FL, holding company for the $1.7 billion asset TIB Bank of the Keys, a 16-branch bank servicing Monroe, Miami-Dade, Collier, and Lee counties.
Tidelands Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: TDBK), the commercial bank holding company for Mount Pleasant, SC-based Tidelands Bank, with more than $750 million in assets and seven locations serving coastal and charleston-area communities.
TrustCo Bank Corp. NY (NASDAQ: TRST), is a multi-bank holding company with assets of $3.6 billion, providing commercial banking services in the Capital Region of New York.
Waterford Village Bank, formerly a New York State chartered commercial bank in Clarence, NY, with assets of about $40 million. Waterford was acquired by Evans Bancorp.
Other Financial Services Experience
Travers Collins & Company's investor relations and financial communications professionals have also served a variety of other financial services companies, including the following.
Empire of America Realty Credit Corp., formerly a $450 million mortgage bank in Buffalo, NY, which was acquired by Midcoast Mortgage Corp.
Finance & Performance Management Practice of Accenture, led by Atlanta, GA-based partners and management consultants around the world providing corporate finance, finance operations, and enterprise performance management services to CFOs and top corporate-finance executives at more than 800 global companies.
Ginnie Mae, the government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) in Washington that has provided the full-faith-and-credit guaranty of the United States to more than $2.5 trillion in mortgage-backed securities (MBS), helping more than 30 million households to access affordable housing.
Home Properties (NYSE: HME), Rochester, NY, the sixth largest publicly-traded apartment real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States, owning and operating over 38,000 multifamily units, primarily located in several major East Coast markets.
Nottingham Advisors, a wealth management and investment advisory services firm with offices in upstate New York and Florida, known until recently as Elias Asset Management.
Radian Group, Inc. (NYSE: RDN), a Philadelphia-based provider of mortgage insurance, financial guaranty, and other credit risk management products and services.
Sovran Self Storage, Inc. (NYSE: SSS), a fully integrated, self-administered, and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, constructs, and manages hundreds of self-storage properties in roughly 20 states across the United States.
Summer Street Capital Partners, a private equity firm with approximately $300 million of committed capital, based in Buffalo, NY, and focused on investing in small-market companies.
Thayer Capital Partners, a Washington private equity firm now known as Thayer/Hidden Creek, targets lower-middle market industrial products and services companies.
U.S. Trust, New York, one of the nation's largest and oldest wealth management and private banking institutions, with approximately $100 billion in assets under management.
Vestar Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm with major offices in Boston, Denver, Milan, and Paris that manages funds totaling more than $7 billion.
