Finanční služby

Since Squire Sanders opened its doors in 1890, financial institutions have been among our largest and most active clients. For more than a century, we have developed a leading global financial services practice, providing a full range of the highest quality legal services to:

• Commercial banks and finance companies
• Hedge funds and private equity funds
• Insurance companies
• Investment banks and broker-dealers
• Other sources of capital

Many of our lawyers have spent their entire careers representing financial institutions, and several have substantial experience serving as officers of leading financial services firms or as banking, insurance or securities regulators. We routinely advise financial institutions around the world on matters regarding:

Banking and debt finance Capital markets and corporate finance Corporate governance and transactions Derivatives Insurance International issues Litigation and alternative dispute resolution

Mergers, acquisitions and dispositions Project finance Regulatory issues Restructurings and workouts Securities Structured finance

Our deep knowledge of the financial services industry allows us to provide clients tailored, practical and solution-oriented legal service.

We serve as primary or preferred legal advisors to several leading global and national financial institutions, as well as many regional and community focused financial institutions. Also, we have represented various regulatory authorities and governmental agencies that provide oversight or serve as sources of liquidity to the financial services sector. Our lawyers have successfully represented these clients in numerous groundbreaking business transactions, regulatory matters and in high stakes litigation. One of our greatest strengths is our fully integrated operating model, which allows us to leverage this global experience for the benefit of each client.

Odborná praxe

• Banky a spořitelny
• Investment Banks

Representative Experience

• Representing the lead agent in a US$82 million secured credit facility financing for a Midwestern private equity fund’s purchase of a hydraulic system distribution company.
• Advising a hospitality client in the US$212.5 million nonrecourse construction loan, by a syndicate of three domestic and international money center banks and financial institutions, of an 11-story premier ski resort and hotel/condominium tower in Deer Valley, Utah accessible via funicular and the only five-star property in Utah.
• Representing the lead agent in connection with a US$90 million asset-based cross-border syndicated credit facility for a commercial industrial metals/material distributor.
• Causing a motion for class certification to be withdrawn representing a nonprofit managed care company in the United States in a putative class action brought by physicians challenging the legality of our client's reimbursement and claims-handling practices and seeking to represent a class of health care providers that had provided medical services to our client's insured.
• Representing the lead agent in a syndicated secured revolving credit facility aggregating US$80 million for a metals warehouser.
• Serving as counsel to the underwriter in the US$93.5 million initial public offering of a US-based property and casualty insurance company.
• Representing a super-regional US-based bank in a US$100 million bilateral revolving credit facility for a Midwestern university.
• Representing the lead agent in connection with a US$75 million syndicated credit facility for an aerospace service company.
• Representing the lead arranger and agent in the restructuring of syndicated secured multicurrency revolving credit and term loan facilities aggregating US$178 million for an international manufacturing group, involving both US and non-US collateral and intercreditor arrangements with two other debt facilities.
• Representing the lead agent in connection with a US$120 million secured, syndicated credit facility for consumer product distributor.

Případové studie

Representing AmTrust Financial Corporation in Chapter 11 Proceedings

In November 2009, Squire Sanders filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases for AmTrust Financial Corporation (now known as AmFin Financial Corporation) and five subsidiaries in Cleveland. AmTrust Financial was the holding company for AmTrust Bank, which was ...

Squire Sanders Prepares Florida Insurance Company Before Storms Hit

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, a statutorily created insurer of last resort that provides property and casualty insurance to qualified risks in Florida, needed to enhance its ability to pay claims arising from windstorm and other weather-re...