Financial Services

Our attorneys understand the distinctive and challenging issues faced by financial companies. Our keen sense of the industry, combined with our sharp legal skills, enable our clients to more easily manage and control a broad range of complex financial, institutional, and corporate transactions. Our commitment to staying attuned to industry trends and changes in laws, rules, and regulations that affect our clients allows us to help develop effective strategies for achieving their goals.

Our financial services attorneys are drawn from a range of practice areas including Corporate, Real Estate, Litigation, Employment and Intellectual Property, bringing together the expertise needed in this competitive and dynamic industry.

Our legal experience in this industry includes:

• Commercial Finance Transactions
• Bank Holding Company Formation and Regulation
• Employment Counseling and Training
• Litigation
• Real Estate Finance Transactions
• Hedge Funds
• Workouts and Restructuring

We represent a wide-range of financial institutions, including major regional and community banks, large national and international banks, insurance companies and other institutional lenders. Our expertise reflects our connection with the industry. Many of our attorneys have a financial backgrounds; some have advanced degrees in Taxation or Finance, and others have work experience in the financial services industry. On behalf of clients, our attorneys have formed and represented bank holding companies throughout the regulatory process. One senior partner served as a General Counsel at a local bank.

Representative industry experience:

• We worked with a large national bank on Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) litigation
• We conducted several financing transactions primarily representing both boutique investment banks and traditional lenders
• We represented a national bank and two of its loan officers in a claim, which was brought under the federal securities laws in connection with an acquisition where the bank was involved as a lender
• We served as counsel in a complex financial case involving bank loans where the matter was litigated within bankruptcy court
• We provided large scale employment training for a local, private bank
• We served as employment counsel in a discrimination case for a national bank
• We have serviced a variety of clients in regulatory investigations including SEC investigations; FCC investigations; DOJ investigations concerning allegations of violations of the Federal False Claims Act and two state investigations concerning the Massachusetts False Claims Act
• We represented the FDIC and Recoll Management in litigation and workout matters.

Learn More

To learn more about our experience in the Banking and Finance industry, please contact Rick Sousa at rsousa@PrinceLobel.com or 617.456.8123.