Cary Plotkin Kavy

Cary Kavy is leader of the firm's Banking and Financial Institutions practice group and assists clients with a broad range of matters involving corporate, securities and financial institution law. Her knowledge and focus is in securities matters, as well as mergers and acquisitions. Cary is a past president of the Texas Association of Bank Counsel. She has represented one of the largest publicly traded financial institutions in Texas for over 25 years and assisted them with numerous corporate, securities and regulatory matters on an ongoing basis. She has also represented numerous banks and bank holding companies in stock offerings, and advised a publicly traded bank holding company in a going private transaction.

• Texas Association of Bank Counsel, President 2002-2003 and 2003-2004; Member, 1998 - present 
• Texas Department of Banking, various Banking Task Forces created by the Banking Commissioner 
• Texas Bankers Association
• 2011 Legal Conference Chair
• Annual Legal Conference Committee
• American Bar Association, Banking Law Committee 
• State Bar of Texas 
• San Antonio Bar Association 
• Bexar County Women’s Bar Association 
• Independent Bankers Association of Texas, Associate Member 
• Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Associate Member 
• Oakes Club 
• YMCA of San Antonio, Downtown Branch, former Director 
• Southern Methodist University Alumni Association 
• Phi Beta Kappa, Southern Methodist University

• Martindale-Hubbell^® AV^® Preeminent^TM Peer Review Rating
• Named "San Antonio Banking and Finance Law Lawyer of the Year," Best Lawyers, 2012
• Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers In America, 1995-2012
• Scene in SA, "San Antonio’s Best Lawyers," 2008 and 2011
• Selected for inclusion as a "Texas Super Lawyer," Law and Politics Magazine, 2003-2004