Bank Regulatory Compliance

Our interdisciplinary team of attorneys is well positioned to provide skilled counsel to help you address all types of bank regulatory issues stemming from a variety of transactions. We can assist you in a broad range of regulatory and compliance issues, including:

• Merger and acquisition transactions, including transactions involving distressed institutions
• Purchases and sales of branches and branch networks
• Structuring trust and wealth management activities
• Issuance of commercial paper and other securities
• Sales of loans and loan portfolios
• Compliance with the full range of regulatory requirements
• Structuring new activities to minimize compliance risks
• Responding to criticism in examination reports
• Defending banks and their officers and directors against enforcement actions by bank regulators
• Managing Dodd-Frank-related issues surrounding derivative activities
• Addressing control issues for private equity investors and other minority shareholders in banks and bank holding companies, including negotiating with bank regulators
• Work-out transactions involving troubled banks and bank holding companies, including bankruptcy proceedings
• Structuring transactions with financial institutions to minimize issues with the FDIC in the event of a receivership
• Dealing with the FDIC if a receivership does occur