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Proskauer Rose LLP offers more than a century of experience in legal matters that bear upon the diverse global and domestic needs of banks, bank holding companies and financial services organizations. For more information about this practice area, contact:
We have served as counsel, general or special, to a broad spectrum of domestic and foreign banking institutions, including domestic and foreign bank holding companies, United States branches and agencies of foreign banks, commercial and savings banks, and insurance companies. We were among the first law firms in the United States to handle the establishment of a branch of a foreign bank in New York. Partners in the Firm have represented, in regulatory and transactional matters, a wide variety of financial institutions, including Bank of America; Citicorp; Fleet Bank; Independence Community Bank; JP Morgan Chase Bank; Key Biscayne Bank & Trust; Wachovia; Milberg Factors; GMAC; GECC; Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association; Banco de Colombia; Banque Privee Edmond de Rothschild S.A.; Corp Banca; Deutsche Bank; Discount Bank; GNB Bank Panama; HSBC; Israel Discount Bank of New York; Macquarie Bank; Mizuho Trust and Banking Company (USA); Shinhan Bank; Societe Generale; UBS; and United Overseas Bank Limited. Proskauer lawyers are proficient in Arabic, Armenian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Rumanian, Russian and Portuguese.
The major part of our finance practice is conducted from our New York office, with substantial support from our Washington, D.C., Florida, Los Angeles and Paris offices. We have provided legal services in a wide array of finance-related matters, drawing upon the resources of the Firm's corporate, securities, tax, real estate, ERISA, insurance, intellectual property, environmental, antitrust, bankruptcy and litigation lawyers whenever needed.
These services have included the following:
- Corporate finance transactions, including global and domestic syndicated loans, working capital loans, asset-based loans, debt/equity swaps, receivables purchase transactions, commercial paper conduits and asset securitization.
- Sports Finance.
- Entertainment/Media Finance.
- Regulatory compliance with respect to the Bank Holding Company Act, International Banking Act, National Bank Act and Federal Reserve Act, and advice to directors with respect to fulfillment of required duties.
- Bank acquisitions and acquisitions of branches and assets of insolvent banks and thrifts.
- Formation of Edge Act and Small Business Investment Companies and domestic and offshore branches, agencies and representative offices.
- Corporate trust and custody, including securities lending and ADR programs, prime brokerage, fiduciary matters and private banking services.
- Securities brokerage, trading and underwriting, mutual funds, and investment management and advisory services.
- Futures, forwards, options, swaps (commodity, interest rate and currency), derivative products, hybrid instruments, structured notes and new product development.
- Letters of credit.
- Leasing.
- Public Finance (revenue bonds, general obligations and debt refunding).
- Mortgage Finance (including warehouse and gestation lending).
- Aircraft Finance.
- Payment and clearing systems.
- Funding, including Federal Funds and repurchase transactions, equity issuance and risk management.
- Loan workouts and restructurings.
In addition to its regulatory and transactional capabilities, Proskauer has extensive experience in banking and commercial litigation (including special investigations) and regularly represents banks and creditors' committees in bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings. Proskauer is also regularly involved, on behalf of banking and financial services clients, in personnel policy planning; the full range of equal employment-related matters (from affirmative action plan development and governmental audits to sex-, race-, age- and disability-related litigations); and wrongful discharge litigations.
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