About Neil
Neil Grayson, a partner with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and the head of the Firm's Financial Institutions Practice Group, has a corporate practice focused primarily on the financial institutions and mobile payments industries. Mr. Grayson advises clients on matters related to corporate governance, enforcement actions and other bank regulatory matters, recapitalizations, private equity, securities offerings and reporting requirements, mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, and related corporate and regulatory matters. Mr. Grayson has experience in corporate governance matters, securities compliance for public companies, and representation of emerging growth companies and private equity funds.
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Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Securities / Capital Markets Law, Greenville (2026)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Greenville (2025)
- Lawyer of the Year: Securities / Capital Markets Law, Greenville (2024)
- Lawyer of the Year: Securities / Capital Markets Law, Greenville (2021)
- Lawyer of the Year: Securities / Capital Markets Law, Greenville (2018)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Greenville (2017)
- Lawyer of the Year: Securities / Capital Markets Law, Greenville (2015)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Greenville (2014)
- Lawyer of the Year: Securities / Capital Markets Law, Greenville (2013)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Greenville (2012)
- Recognized: Financial Services Regulation Law
- Recognized: Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Recognized: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Recognized: Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Recognized: Securities Regulation
- Special Focus: COVID-19
- The Best Lawyers in America® Lawyer of the Year, Greenville, S.C., Securities/Capital Markets Law (2018)
- Greenville Business Magazine's "Legal Elite of the Upstate," Banking and Finance (2012-2017)
- The Best Lawyers in America® -- Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation Law (2007-2018)
- Best Lawyers Greenville Mergers & Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year (2012, 2017)
- Best Lawyers Greenville Securities/Corporate Markets Law Lawyer of the Year (2013, 2014)
- Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business: Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate M&A: Banking and Finance (2005-2017)