Michael Powell

Mike Powell serves as senior vice president and deputy general counsel at Fifth Third Bank, responsible for overseeing Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Investments, Securities, Corporate Insurance, and Fifth Third Bank’s Wealth & Asset Management and Retail Brokerage divisions.

Since joining Fifth Third in December 2017, Mike has facilitated the successful closure of more than 60 M&A and strategic investment transactions, including the $4.7 billion merger with MB Financial Bank, N.A. in May 2019, Fifth Third’s largest since it acquired Old Kent Financial Corp. in 2001.

Prior to joining Fifth Third, Mike spent three years as sole in-house M&A Counsel at Teradata Corporation, a publicly traded big data analytics company with operations worldwide. There, he headed up legal support for Teradata’s domestic and international mergers & acquisitions, strategic investments, and divestitures.

Mike also spent ten years in Washington, D.C. where he was in private practice with the D.C. offices of two prominent Midwest-based firms, Baker Hostetler and Dickinson Wright.

Mike earned his Bachelor of Journalism degree summa cum laude from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and his law degree from Harvard Law School.