Debevoise has extensive experience advising foreign banking organizations on regulatory, transactional and compliance issues affecting their businesses in the United States. The firm advised on the first acquisition by a foreign bank approved by the Federal Reserve under the new “systemic risk factor” in the Dodd-Frank Act. Debevoise lawyers have particular experience advising foreign banks on anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance issues, and author the AML and Sanctions chapter of the seminal treatise, Regulation of Foreign Banks and Affiliates in the United States. The firm is currently advising the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and numerous foreign banks and private fund sponsors and investors on complex regulatory and transactional issues arising out of the Volcker Rule, in addition to providing comprehensive strategic advice to foreign banking organizations impacted by the Federal Reserve’s enhanced prudential standards regime.