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Addressing the complex challenges facing the financial services industry in today's evolving business and legal environment requires sophisticated legal knowledge and experience. Our financial services attorneys handle hundreds of transactions for financial services companies and have in-depth knowledge of the legal and business issues our clients face. We provide efficient, cost effective representation of financial companies, with inventive and innovative solutions to legal problems.
Practice Overview We advise clients on all of the regulatory, corporate, securities, tax, ERISA, real estate and antitrust issues that financial companies face in M&A transactions. Our clients include publicly-held and privately-owned banks, bank holding companies, financial holding companies, savings banks, credit unions, industrial loan companies, specialty finance companies, mortgage bankers/brokers, REITs, loan servicing companies, securities broker/dealers, investment advisors, insurance companies and insurance agencies. Our financial services attorneys have been recognized by The American Banker as leading advisors in banking M&A transactions. We have represented financial companies in M&A transactions in states in every region of the country. We are able to address all the federal and state securities issues presented in capital market transactions. We represent financial companies in initial public offerings, Regulation A, Regulation D and intrastate offerings, private placements, tender offers, and the issuance of trust preferred securities and subordinated debt. We have a nationally recognized securitization practice for commercial and residential mortgage loans. Scope of Service Our broad range of transactional experience has given us in-depth knowledge of: Mergers and Acquisitions Cash and stock mergers (both public and private) Asset purchase agreements Branch purchase and assumption transactions De novo charters of new banks Charter conversions Interstate banking Bank holding company formations Financial holding company requirements and powers Joint ventures and affiliated business arrangements Capital Markets Initial public offerings of common stock Private placements of debt and equity securities Trust preferred securities Subordinated and convertible debt Reverse stock splits Tender offers for debt and equity securities Sub-chapter S elections Asset securitization Of Note We argued and won a case of national importance regarding a national bank's interstate branching rights and the Riegle-Neal Act's preemption of state laws limiting branching following a merger. TeamBank, N.A. v. McClure, 279 F.3d 614 (8th Cir. 2002)
We advise clients on all of the regulatory, corporate, securities, tax, ERISA, real estate and antitrust issues that financial companies face in M&A transactions. Our clients include publicly-held and privately-owned banks, bank holding companies, financial holding companies, savings banks, credit unions, industrial loan companies, specialty finance companies, mortgage bankers/brokers, REITs, loan servicing companies, securities broker/dealers, investment advisors, insurance companies and insurance agencies.
Our financial services attorneys have been recognized by The American Banker as leading advisors in banking M&A transactions. We have represented financial companies in M&A transactions in states in every region of the country.
We are able to address all the federal and state securities issues presented in capital market transactions. We represent financial companies in initial public offerings, Regulation A, Regulation D and intrastate offerings, private placements, tender offers, and the issuance of trust preferred securities and subordinated debt. We have a nationally recognized securitization practice for commercial and residential mortgage loans.
Our broad range of transactional experience has given us in-depth knowledge of:
We argued and won a case of national importance regarding a national bank's interstate branching rights and the Riegle-Neal Act's preemption of state laws limiting branching following a merger. TeamBank, N.A. v. McClure, 279 F.3d 614 (8th Cir. 2002)