Dave Kenny has more than 30 years of experience advising domestic and foreign financial institutions on regulatory, examination, credit, corporate and operational matters. His practice also includes trade finance, mergers and acquisitions, the securities and insurance activities of financial institutions, and new financial products and services.

Mr. Kenny has testified on banking and financial services law before committees of the California State Legislature, and from 1986 to 1989 was retained by the California Bankers Association as principal consultant and draftsman for foreign and international banking law matters in connection with a proposed revision of California banking law.

Mr. Kenny also represents nonfinancial institution clients in matters involving transnational commercial and business transactions and private and public international law. He serves as international counsel to Stanford University and represents other universities in foreign and international law matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Kenny served with the US government in Panama and Ecuador and acted as a law clerk in the Legal Adviser’s Office of the US Department of State.

Mr. Kenny has lectured on banking law and international law at the business and law schools of Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley and other universities. He has also lectured on US banking law at the head offices of more than 30 international banks in Asia and Europe.

Mr. Kenny has served as chair of the San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association and is a member of the Financial Institutions Committee of the State Bar of California and of the California Bankers Association’s State Governmental Relations Committee. He also is a member of the International Diplomacy Council and the California Council for International Trade.