SVB Bank Rescue Veteran Mayopoulos Readies for Next Adventure

Timothy Mayopoulos, the veteran financial services lawyer tapped to salvage Silicon Valley Bank, is back on the market.

Mayopoulos in March helped orchestrate the sale of SVB to resolve the largest US bank bust since 2008. He remains part of the US government’s “standby pool” of executives ready to take key roles at faltering financial institutions if called on, what he likened to being a “first responder in the financial system.”

The former top in-house lawyer for Bank of America and one-time chief executive at Fannie Mae also has on his resume an eight-year stint at Wall Street’s Davis Polk ...