金融服务
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
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- Mergers, acquisitions and dispositions
- Project finance
- Regulatory issues
- Restructurings and workouts
- Securities
- Structured finance
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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.
法律事业组擅长的范畴
代表性执业经验
- 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 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 the lead arranger and agent in syndicated secured multicurrency revolving credit and term loan facilities aggregating US$180 million for an international manufacturing group, involving both US and non-US collateral and intercreditor arrangements with simultaneously issued subordinated notes.
- 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.
- Representing the lead agent in a US$200 million syndicated revolving credit facility for a US-based insurance holding company.
- Representing the lead agent in connection with a US$120 million secured, syndicated credit facility for consumer product distributor.
- Representing a US nationally recognized supplemental insurance carrier in an agency contract termination dispute. The court directed a verdict in favor of the insurance carrier with regard to the terminated agency’s claims on conversion, breach of fiduciary duty and punitive damages.
- Representing the lead agent in connection with a US$100 million asset-based, syndicated credit facility in conjunction with a US$200 million syndicated term loan facility for retail products company.
- Representing an insurance company when one of its insurance brokers left and set up a competing business. The former employee sued for wrongful termination and we cross-claimed on behalf of our client for unfair business practices and the misappropriation of trade secrets. The case was settled in its early stages.
案例研究
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...