Banking
BuckleySandler provides regulatory, supervisory, government enforcement, legislative, and transactional advice to banks, thrifts, industrial banks, bank and thrift holding companies, and other financial institutions. Our bank clients include major regional, national, and international organizations, as well as community banks or “specialty” banks and thrifts chartered to provide services to the financial services community.
We provide advice on the full range of legal and regulatory issues that confront financial institutions, including matters involving regulatory enforcement and compliance matters; retail lending and deposit-taking and related consumer protection issues; corporate and securities matters; anti-money laundering requirements; transactions with affiliate issues; data security and privacy issues; electronic banking and commerce issues; other new product and regulatory issues; and outsourcing transactions. In particular, the Firm regularly handles matters involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, the Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), and the False Claims Act.
Our regulatory practice includes representing our financial services clients before federal and state regulatory agencies in connection with all aspects of regulatory applications, from the preparation and filing of applications for new powers or charters to advising clients regarding acquisition application reviews. In addition, the Firm frequently advises clients in connection with regulatory examinations and supervision issues and is able to draw on the extensive knowledge and practical experience of our attorneys – some of whom have served as regulators – in order to obtain an optimal result for our clients. In the area of examinations, we provide full service assistance to our financial services clients prior to and throughout the examination process, including advising our clients on pre-examination preparation, responding to regulators’ inquiries, and assisting them with any post-examination follow-up that may be necessary. For more information please see our Regulatory Examinations practice area overview.
In the enforcement area, the Firm represents financial institutions and their officers, directors, and employees before federal and state governmental agencies on all matters, including formal and informal government investigations and enforcement proceedings and related private class actions and other complex litigation concerning anti-money laundering, privacy, fair lending, securities, and other laws. The Firm’s attorneys frequently have represented clients before the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and other federal and state agencies. For more information please see our Government Enforcement practice area overview.
Our attorneys also regularly counsel financial services institutions on compliance issues involving a broad range of financial products and services and with due diligence examinations related to acquisitions and strategic partnerships, loan securitizations, and warehouse lending activities.
Partners in this practice:
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David Baris |
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Jeremiah S. Buckley |
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Jeffrey P. Naimon |
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Robert B. Serino |
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In-depth review of news & developments in the financial services industry.
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A full listing of national & state bank regulatory agencies & industry groups.