The Banking
& Financial Services Practice Group of Jones Walker offers comprehensive
legal and regulatory compliance counsel to financial institutions, their
owners, and executives. Our firm has a long history and well-earned reputation
in the financial services industry, and our individual attorneys have a
thorough, firsthand understanding of emerging business, technology, market, and
legislative forces.
US News
& World Report has
ranked Jones Walker's banking practice as one of the top 50 in the United
States since 2010, the first year in which that publication ranked U.S. law
firms. Numerous Jones Walker attorneys are listed in Chambers USA – America's Leading Lawyers
for Business and The
Best Lawyers in America. SNL
Financial has repeatedly named the firm among the leading advisors
for bank merger and acquisition transactions, as determined by the number of
deals handled each year.
Prior to
entering private practice, many of our lawyers held senior positions at major
financial institutions and in key federal financial supervisory agencies, and a
number continue to serve in leadership roles in industry associations. Drawing
on this private-sector and government experience, we provide knowledgeable,
effective advice to managers, owners, and investors seeking to identify and act
upon opportunities that arise in this challenging, complex financial landscape.
We have strong
banking and finance teams located in firm offices throughout the southeastern
and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, including Alabama, the District
of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. We frequently represent
national and regional institutions before U.S. federal banking and financial
regulatory agencies in Washington, D.C., and in district offices in Atlanta,
Dallas, Richmond, and St. Louis. We also have developed cooperative
relationships with state banking regulators across the country.
Representation
& Experience
Our clients
include the following:
- Bank holding
companies and commercial banks
- Broker-dealers and
investment advisers
- Investment banks
- Managing general
agents
- Onshore and
offshore insurance and reinsurance companies and producers
- Pension funds and
administrators
- Private equity,
venture capital, debt, and hedge funds
- Savings
associations
- Special committees
of boards of directors
- Thrifts and
community banks
- Trust companies
Our counsel is broad
ranging and comprehensive. We advise clients on mergers and acquisitions,
regulatory issues, shareholder relations, corporate governance and securities
regulation, including debt and equity financing, as well as taxation matters,
employment, and bankruptcy and restructuring. We regularly represent clients in
regulatory investigations, law-enforcement inquiries, and other matters that
have arisen before state and federal supervisory agencies. We frequently appear
before the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve
Banks, officials of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and state regulatory
agencies that oversee activities in banking, securities, insurance, and other
financial services industries.
