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Bank Regulatory
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SRZ has been actively advising clients on issues of banking law and regulation for more than 25 years. In particular, we have been at the forefront of the intersection of private investment funds and financial institutions, guiding private investors through the complex issues that accompany an investment in a regulated entity and advising depository institutions and their holding companies in their private investment fund and merchant banking activities.
Our attorneys provide counseling, transaction and litigation services to a large and diverse group of financial institutions and financial service providers, as well as the holding companies and investors of such institutions, including:
- Full-service and limited-purpose depository institutions
- U.S. facilities/subsidiaries of foreign depository institutions
- Trust companies
- Mortgage and consumer finance companies
- Commercial lending companies
- Money transmitters and payment system providers
- Foreign-exchange companies
Our work includes:
- Structuring and chartering/licensing of new institutions
- Charter conversions
- Mergers and acquisitions, both domestic and international
- Structuring of new businesses and products
- Dispositions of assets
- Investments, including structured products, merchant banking activities and bank-sponsored investment funds
- Financings
- Reorganizations
- Advice on legislative and regulatory developments
- Responses to formal and informal regulatory actions
- Litigations and claims
In doing so, we have practiced and/or appeared before the:
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- Office of Thrift Supervision
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
- Office of Foreign Assets Control
- Federal Housing Finance Board
- Bank regulatory agencies of all states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico
- Federal and state courts
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