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Banks operate in a world fraught with regulations, pending legislation, examination, enforcement, and an endless barrage of critical issues. Our role, as corporate, securities, and regulatory counsel, is to thoroughly understand your business. We help minimize risks and maximize opportunities.
Our wealth of corporate, securities, and bank regulatory experience includes experience representing banks and financial services institutions, from small to large.
- We have specific experience with de novo banks, from preparing applications packages and exhibits to crafting articles, bylaws, employment agreements and stock incentive plans. We help structure, negotiate, and document significant loan transactions, assist with filing and compliance obligations with the relevant regulatory agencies, and provide counsel concerning examinations and audits by regulatory bodies. Where necessary, we act as an advocate and liaison with federal and state banking regulators
- We handle lending transactions of all types, whether asset-based or cash flow lending, acquisition funding, construction and real estate lending, and SBA loans
- We are experienced in handling all phases of workouts, bankruptcies, reorganizations, restructurings and liquidations
- Our litigation group is capable of handling a wide variety of commercial litigation matters, from collection actions and employment issues to complex civil litigation. We won a $4.4 million verdict for a bank that had taken a $3.75 million loss in a botched complex real estate loan transaction
- We assist our clients with capital raising transactions – our attorneys have experience handling private placements and public offerings of debt and equity securities
- We are experienced in advising companies in connection with their SEC reporting obligations, proxy statements, and other corporate governance matters
- We advise clients on their most important matters, such as mergers and acquisitions
- Our attorneys have experience guiding banks and financial institutions through the regulatory maze. We regularly help our clients comply with a patchwork of state and federal banking laws and regulations
- Our employment law group regularly helps clients with employee benefits, employment and non-compete agreements, compensation and re-employment policies and human resources practices, discrimination claims and other employee-related litigation
Contact SGR to arrange a consultation.
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