Banking and Finance
The resilience of the global economy rests on
the ability of banking and finance participants to innovate in the
face of rapid change. Like our clients, our practice has
evolved to provide superior service to our banking and financial
institutions clients now operating in a dramatically altered
landscape.
We have a reputation of excellence, which
is founded upon our proven ability to deliver effective and
insightful legal counsel covering everything that financial
institutions and financial services businesses require. We advise
banks, thrifts, accounting firms, insurance and reinsurance
companies, fund and asset management companies, financial
intermediaries and brokers.
At the core of our offering is one of the
largest, most substantive and geographically expansive
departments in the industry. Many of our relationships extend well
beyond traditional banking and finance work, with clients
taking advantage of our ability to deliver sector-specific
expertise in tandem with a full range of commercial legal
services.
Areas of Focus:
- Acquisition finance
- Affordable housing and social housing
finance
- Asset finance
- Asset based lending
- Bank and holding company formation
- Bank mutual to stock conversions
- Capital raising and investments in bank
capital
- Consumer credit
- Corporate and syndicated lending
- Financial institutions compensation and
benefits
- Financial institutions mergers and
acquisitions
- Financial institutions regulation
- Investment funds
- Islamic finance
- Project finance
- Real estate finance
- Trade and export finance