Stephen Skaggs, a principal and organizing partner of The Bank Advisory Group, has consulted with hundreds of community banks nationwide in M&A transactions.

He has special expertise in determining bank pricing trends, brokering banks for sale, analyzing banks for purchase, and developing novel comparative financial analyses.

As a partner with The Bank Advisory Group, Daniel Jackson works extensively with community banks nationwide in developing negotiating strategies, formulating pricing and structural alternatives, and evaluating merger & acquisition options.

Mr. Jackson manages the firm’s valuation services and holds a Certified Valuation Analyst designation from the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts.

As Senior Vice President with The Bank Advisory Group, Patrick Brown advises community banks nationwide on strategic merger and acquisition opportunities.

He has also completed more than 300 fair market valuations of bank stock for employee benefit plans, federal estate tax returns, and corporate stock transactions.

Brandon McCown joined The Bank Advisory Group in 2022 and has extensive experience working with community banks across the U.S.

Mr. McCown has been involved in analyzing numerous strategic M&A opportunities for commercial bank clients and over 200 fair market valuations of bank stock for employee benefit plans, federal estate tax returns, stock gifting, and corporate stock transactions.

Bob Walters established The Bank Advisory Group in 1989. For ten years prior to that, Mr. Walters formed and headed the community bank merger & acquisitions and bank stock valuation advisory services of Sheshunoff & Company.

As a result, Mr. Walters has represented hundreds of banks through brokering selling banks, and through developing negotiating strategies, formulating pricing and transaction structure alternatives, and determining pro forma financial performance opportunities for bank buyers and bank merger partners. By representing selling banks, buyers of banks, as well as partners in “merger-of-equals” transactions for over three decades, Mr. Walters has compiled a depth and breadth of experience that is unparalleled in the community bank M&A advisory business.