Our Banking Group has extensive experience counseling banks, thrifts, insurance firms and other financial institutions on a wide range of matters and is ranked as a leading practice in Chambers USA and IFLR 1000.¹  Our banking practice advises on complex banking mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions; U.S. and international regulatory and compliance issues; corporate governance matters; capital markets activities (including representing issuers and underwriters); antitrust analysis and new product developments.  We advise clients on transactional, compliance and regulatory issues stemming from their business activities, including counseling private equity clients on complex banking transactions, and on the structuring of financings and other transactions for their clients.  We represent clients in civil and criminal litigation and appearing before Congress and regulatory agencies in investigatory, supervisory and enforcement matters.  We also have conducted internal investigations on behalf of our clients.

Our banking practice has over 20 lawyers located in the United States and abroad and counsels clients with respect to their U.S. and non-U.S. operations.  We advise U.S. financial services companies on international investments and acquisitions and non-U.S. financial institutions on the establishment and operation of branches and affiliates in the United States.

Our banking attorneys work closely with our other financial institutions practice groups, including our insurance, broker-dealer and investment management practices, as well as the firm’s corporate, derivatives and structured finance, private equity, hedge funds, litigation, tax and ERISA groups to provide an integrated platform for our financial services clients.

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¹ For related methodology, see Chambers USA and IFLR.