Debevoise’s Financial Institutions Group provides top-quality advice and counseling on critical issues to financial institutions around the world.

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Nicholas F. Potter

Gregory J. Lyons

Jeff Robins

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Tougher Banking Agency Examination Guidelines—The Less Publicized Ramification of the 2023 Bank Failures
The FDIC’s Proposed Bank Merger Guidance: Proposing a Perilous Path for Large Bank (and Nonbank) Merger Transactions
A Guide to US, UK and EU Sanctions and Export Controls on Russia and Belarus

Ranked as a leading firm for M&A and Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance) and Financial Institutions M&A by Chambers USA (2023).

The breadth of the Debevoise team is excellent.

Debevoise has a strong, responsive and thoughtful bank regulatory team that is able to advise complex financial institutions on nuanced regulatory issues while balancing commercial concerns.

Typically my first stop for complex regulatory issues and insight into industry trends and best practices.

Their strengths lie in their ability to effectively combine regulatory expertise with industry knowledge to create practical business advice.

An extremely strong practice for financial institutions M&A. The advantage that they have is depth.

Debevoise possesses excellent industry knowledge. They have been valuable partners in understanding the risks presented by new initiatives and developing effective solutions to mitigate those risks.

They’ve done excellent work and are able to provide cross-functional expertise. They have a good bedside manner, great client service, and are excellent in terms of understanding what the marketplace looks like.

—Chambers USA, 2020-2023

Ranked as a leading firm for Financial Services Regulation by The Legal 500 US (2023).

Great balance of expert technical knowledge with a realistic commercial approach.

—The Legal 500 US, 2021-2022

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The Group is an integral part of the firm’s transactional and litigation capabilities and regularly handles major compliance challenges, enforcement proceedings and litigation, as well as marquee M&A transactions, financings and an array of other complex transactions. In 2015, the team was named “Financial Services Team of the Year” by The Legal 500 US. It is also ranked as a leading practice by Chambers USA, Chambers UK, IFLR, SNL Financial and others in the Americas, Europe and Asia.A key strength of the practice lies in the Group’s deep market knowledge of the insurance and banking sectors and its long experience counseling financial services clients on complex banking, insurance, securities, broker-dealer and investment management matters.The Group’s corporate team has significant experience in the establishment and authorization of regulated financial institutions and has worked on a broad range of transactional and regulatory compliance issues. The Group’s litigators handle an array of complex matters in courts in the U.S., UK, France and elsewhere, and also regularly appear before agencies, administrative bodies and arbitration tribunals worldwide.In recent years, the team has been immersed in strategic and compliance issues flowing from the Dodd-Frank Act and other U.S. and international financial reform efforts. As noted in Chambers USA, Debevoise is at the “cutting edge of regulatory advisory and transactional work.”