Financial Institutions

Schiff Hardin provides services to banks, savings associations and other types of financial institutions nationally and internationally. Among Schiff Hardin's strengths are the breadth of our practice and the ability of our lawyers to focus on financial institutions and team with other lawyers in the firm who focus on the issues that financial institutions — like all businesses — face from time to time.

Our diverse counseling services to financial institution clients include:

Mergers and acquisitions
Financings, including:

Initial public offerings
Trust preferred securities offerings
Senior and subordinated notes
Other public and/or private offerings of debt and equity

Anti-takeover planning
Branch purchases and sales
Corporate governance
Federal and state regulatory compliance
Lending, including:

Commercial lending
Mezzanine financing
Project financing
Loan workouts and restructurings

Consumer privacy
Employee benefits/executive compensation
Labor and employment
Insurance companies forming banking units
De novo banks
Vendor agreements
Strategic ventures
Non-banking activities
New product development
Trust department counsel
Trust and investment management litigation
Charter conversions
Internet/e-commerce issues