Granville has been with the firm for 24 years. He is currently serving on the firm’s Board of Directors and will assume the position of Chairman of the firm on January 1, 2011. Granville has served as the firm’s Loss Prevention / Ethics Partner since 1996. He has also served as Chairman of the firm’s Commercial Department. He focuses his practice on banking, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, securities and real estate matters.

Granville’s practice has particular emphasis on corporate, finance, merger and acquisition, compliance, enforcement and regulatory matters for financial institutions. He is the Chair of Brunini’s financial institutions practice group. His experience includes representation of bank holding companies, banks and de novo institutions. He has represented both buyers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions and is experienced in trust preferred securities issuances and debt and equity securities offerings. He advises Boards of Directors and senior officers regarding their fiduciary duties and corporate governance responsibilities. Among other organizations he represents, he has supervised numerous transactions for Trustmark Corporation, a multi-state bank holding company headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, and the parent corporation of Trustmark National Bank, including the interstate transactions by which Trustmark entered the Tennessee, Florida and Texas banking markets. Granville practices before all federal and state agencies that regulate financial services providers. He is recognized in Woodward/White’s Best Lawyers in America in the area of Banking Law and Chambers USA for Corporate / Commercial Law in Banking and Finance.

Granville has represented clients on merger and acquisition transactions in a variety of other industries, including timber, retail, television, polymer, software and ATM/debit network companies. He represented the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of PULSE EFT Association, a Texas nonprofit corporation with approximately 4,000 members, on corporate, governance, strategic planning, fairness opinion and other processes that resulted in the acquisition of PULSE EFT Association by Discover Financial Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., for $311 million in 2005.

Granville’s real estate practice includes the purchase and sale of real estate for buyers and sellers, as well as the representation of landowners for recreational, agricultural, conservation and timber management purposes. He has handled numerous conservation easement transactions, including IRS audits of conservation easement donations, and is a frequent speaker on conservation easement topics. Granville has experience working with state and federal regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and levee districts that exercise jurisdiction over these types of properties.

Granville is actively involved in professional and civic activities. He served as counsel to and on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Habitat for Humanity/Metro Jackson, Inc. for 12 years and is a graduate of the 1996-1997 class of Leadership Jackson. Granville has served as the Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi since 2002.

Community & Professional Activities

• Hinds County Bar Association
• Mississippi Bar Association (Member, Sections on Business Law and Real Property Law)
• The American Bar Association (Member, Sections on Business Law and Real Property, Trust and Estate Law)
• American Judicature Society