Matthew Havice, vice president for enterprise risk management and general counsel at Georgia’s Own Credit Union, achieved pioneer status in 2018 by navigating the first credit union acquisition of a bank in Georgia history. Georgia’s Own Credit Union’s purchase of State Bank of Georgia was under scrutiny from a host of regulatory bodies, including the National Credit Union Association, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance.
Havice orchestrated the acquisition from a legal standpoint and also served as the project lead on the immersion of the acquired employees and the integration of all systems. This included data conversion all the way to making sure the employees understood any changes to their employee benefits.
