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See also:
Investment Management Industry
Securities Industry
Our attorneys bring the firm’s corporate, finance, and tax experience to numerous transactions financial institutions undertake, including business launches, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. We work with mortgage banks and servicers, commercial finance companies, investment banks, and other institutions on mortgage finance and secured finance transactions. Our bankruptcy attorneys help lenders maximize recovery in problem credits, representing them in reorganizations and workouts of various loans; we also advise on acquisitions and divestitures of insolvent and other highly leveraged companies. The group represents banks, investment banks, and other lenders in financing transactions secured by real estate. We counsel on the fiduciary responsibilities of institutions serving as executors and trustees in trusts and estates matters, handling fiduciary litigation when necessary. Our litigation attorneys also represent financial institutions in antitrust, white collar, and employment matters, including those certified as class actions.
As with other technologically progressive companies, a financial institution’s intellectual property is at once highly valuable and particularly vulnerable. Our group advises on the patent, licensing, outsourcing, business privacy, and data security issues of financial services products, managing intellectual property litigation as necessary. A member of our Financial Services group previously headed the worldwide intellectual property division for JPMorgan Chase’s legal department (serving as lead internal lawyer on multi-billion dollar outsourcing deals and patent litigation) and chaired the Financial Services Roundtable’s patent working group. In the race for competitive advantage, financial institutions should be supported by attorneys who know financial institutions.
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