Barbara S. Meeks

Barbara Meeks is a partner in Chapman's Banking and Financial Services Department and member of the Bank Corporate Group. Barbara provides practical and collaborative legal advice to a range of global, regional, and community banks, as well as fintech, treasury management, payments, insurance, wealth management, and brokerage companies. Her practice addresses complex legal challenges, including regulatory, compliance, transactional, governance, risk management, and investigative matters. She has experience regarding commercial and consumer transactions, Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), living will requirements, interest rate transition, Bank Secrecy Act, broker-dealer, and insurance licensing matters.

Prior to joining Chapman, Barbara was a partner at an Am Law 200 firm in Charlotte. Prior to that, she held leadership positions in large financial institutions, providing regulatory and legal support for a broad platform of banking, insurance and brokerage activities, both domestically and internationally.

While advising financial institutions on complex legal issues and crisis management, Barbara has served the community, including as trustee on the board for the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, and as chair of the Development Committee and Blumenthal Business Leaders for the Arts. She previously served as a board member for the Davidson-Cornelius Child Development Center.