Mark V. Nuccio
Partner
Mark Nuccio is a partner in the asset management group and serves as leader of the firm’s bank regulatory team. For over 30 years, Mark has devoted his practice to advancing the business needs of companies and organizations. Mark's broad corporate practice includes acquisitions and dispositions, public offerings and other financing transactions for issuers, underwriters and investors, organizing new ventures, intellectual property licensing, and general representation of public and private companies. He has extensive experience with public company disclosure and reporting, bank holding company regulation, the organization and early-stage financing ventures of new entities, and the formation of complex joint ventures.
Mark leads the bank regulatory practice.
Mark is the firm’s expert on the Volcker Rule, and advises a wide range of banking entities and their counterparties around the world with respect to the rule’s proprietary trading, fund sponsorship and investment limitations on their activities. He is highly experienced representing issuers, investors, and underwriters with respect to bank and holding company securities law and transactional matters, including offerings of trust preferred, senior and subordinated debt and common stock, and private equity investments in banking entities.
Publications
- Co-author, “Proposed Changes for the Federal Reserve’s Control Analysis,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (May 1, 2019)
- Quoted, “OMB Memo Seen As Power Play For Tighter Agency Grip,” Law360 (April 12, 2019)
- Co-author, “What New Bank Charters Mean For Fintech,” Law360 (October 11, 2018)
- Quoted, “The Great Rollback,” The Deal (September 14, 2018)
- Mark Nuccio and Gideon Blatt, “Proposed revisions to the Volcker Rule,” Westlaw Journal Bank & Lender Liability (July 9, 2018)
- Mark Nuccio and Richard Loewy, “Rolling Back the Dodd-Frank Reforms,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (June 13, 2018)
- Quoted, “Volcker proposals deemed a positive, reasonable step,” International Financial Law Review (June 5, 2018)
- Quoted, “Fed’s Proposed Volcker Rule Changes May Benefit VC Firms,” Institutional Investor (May 31, 2018)
- Quoted, “Dodd-Frank Act rule rollback makes its way through Congress,” Compliance Week (May 23, 2018)
- Quoted, “Congress Passes Bank Deregulation Bill to Roll Back Dodd-Frank,” Institutional Investor (May 22, 2018)
- Quoted, “BankThink Changes to Volcker coming with or without House bill,” American Banker (April 16, 2018)
- Author, “Upcoming Volcker Rule Regulatory Changes,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (March 26, 2018)
- Quoted, “Winds of change blowing on Volcker rule,” S&P Global Market Intelligence (June 15, 2017)
- Quoted, “Kreutzer’s Take: Will Fed Move on Volcker Take the Pressure Off?,” WSJ Pro Private Equity (December 23, 2016)
- Quoted, “Kreutzer’s Take: Buying Time on the Volcker Rule,” WSJ Pro Private Equity (December 22, 2016)
- Quoted, “Big banks' relationship with Dodd-Frank: it's complicated,” Reuters (November 23, 2016)
- Quoted, “UK intervened in HSBC's US settlement,” International Financing Review (July 16, 2016)
- Quoted, “Kreutzer’s Take: Secondary Buyers Try to Read the Volcker Tea Leaves,” The Wall Street Journal, Private Equity Pro (April 28, 2016)
- Quoted, “How the Volcker Rule could have succeeded,” IFLR (March 28, 2016)
- Featured, “Forum: Evaluating the Volcker Rule,” Financier Worldwide (December 2014)
- Quoted, “Where Did GM Go Wrong?” Bank Director (July 18, 2014)
- Quoted, "4 Tips for Avoiding Banking M&A Pitfalls," Law360 (March 27, 2014)
- Quoted, “Ropes & Gray Attorneys Discuss the Impact on Private Fund Managers of Final Regulations Under the Volcker Rule,” The Hedge Fund Law Report (March 13, 2014)
- Quoted, ”Secondary Buyers Prep for Q1 Boost as Clock Ticks on Volcker Rule,” Private Equity Analyst (February 2014)
- Richard Loewy and Mark Nuccio, “Volcker Rule Final Regulations: The Effect on Private Fund Sponsors and Investors,” (December 2013)
- Quoted, “Berkshire Bank Expands Mass.-Based Bank Acquires 20 BofA Branches in New York,” Banking New York (September 10, 2013)
- Quoted, “Janet Yellen Will Mean Low Interest Rates, Stability in Fed Policy,” Bank Director (October 16, 2013)
- Quoted, “What is the Worst Aspect of Dodd-Frank?” Bank Director (September 11, 2013)
- Mark Nuccio and Richard Loewy, "Basel III: Impact on Asset-Based Lending," ABF Journal (January/February 2013)
- Mark Nuccio and Richard Loewy, "Basel III: Impact on Equipment Loans & Leases," Monitor (January/February 2013)
- Mark Nuccio, "SIFI Fuss–What Happens Next?" Boardmember.com (May 2012)
- Joel Wattenbarger, Jason E. Brown, Mark Nuccio and Alyssa Clough, "Proposed Volcker Rule and the Effect on Private Fund Sponsors and Investors," Hedge Fund Law Report (October 2011)
- The Dodd-Frank Watch Blog, Boardmember.com (2011)
- "Special Liability Risks for Director Appointees to Banking Organizations," The Banking Law Journal, Volume 127, No. 2, February 2010
Education
- JD, magna cum laude, Boston College Law School, 1983; Order of the Coif; Editor, Boston College Law Review
- BA, magna cum laude, Boston College, 1978; Scholar of the College; Alpha Sigma Nu (National Jesuit Honor Society)