Ramon E. Rasco Email & Phone Number

With more 30 years in the practice of business, real estate and banking law, and nearly two decades of service on the boards of commercial banks, including his chairmanship of U.S. Century Bank, Mr. Rasco brings a unique and experienced skill set to the issues that confront banks and businesses today.Mr. Rasco was an organizer and founder of Ready State Bank in 1983 and of U.S. Century Bank in 2002. He served as board secretary of Ready State Bank from 1983 until its merger with Union Planters Bank in 1998, and he has served as Chairman of U.S. Century Bank from its opening in 2002 to date. He also served as an advisory board member of Union Planters Bank (now Regions Bank) from 1999 to 2001.Mr. Rasco has firsthand knowledge of the local real estate markets. He served on the board of Century Partners Group, one of the largest homebuilders in Miami-Dade County, and related companies. He currently serves on the board of Neighborhood Planning Company, a large-scale landowner in Miami-Dade County.Mr. Rasco has also served as an arbitrator of the American Arbitration Association, and he has lectured on real estate and commercial leasing law before the Third and Sixth Conferences of Lawyers of the Americas; the 1989, 1991, and 1994 University of Miami Conferences for Latin American Jurists, and before various Florida Bar groups. In April, 1992, Mr. Rasco testified before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on the credit crunch and real estate markets, and in July, 1997, he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Sub-Committee on International Economic Policy and Trade regarding Fast-Tracking NAFTA and a Free Trade Area of the Americas.Mr. Rasco is admitted to practice in the State of Florida, the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida and the United States Tax Court. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Inter-American Bar Association, the Cuban-American Bar Association and the Dade County Bar Association.

Listed skills include Corporate Governance, Mergers And Acquisitions, Arbitration, Real Estate, and 44 others.