Financial Services Lawyers

The financial services lawyers at Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (SHB) are part of our Banking & Financial Services Practice. We focus on helping our clients achieve their long-term goals regarding financial services. Lawyers in our Banking & Financial Services Practice also represent clients in Chapter 11 issues, Mergers, Acquisitions & Joint Ventures, Corporate Transactions and Securities Offerings.

Our financial services lawyers work hand in hand with our Corporate Transactions Practice. Together they provide legal financial services for a diverse client base that includes multinational public companies and early-stage private firms to structure, negotiate and close mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. On behalf of our public clients, our financial services lawyers have teamed with the Corporate Transactions group to acquire and sell companies; prepare registration statements under the securities laws; assist in structuring and conducting ?auctions? of businesses and divisions; formulate and implement takeover defense strategies; and handle tender offers.

Our financial services lawyers also collaborate with the Corporate Transactions Practice to represent both issuers and underwriters involved with public offerings and private placements of securities. We recognize the risks of rapidly changing markets, and we use the firm?s significant resources to bring securities to market as promptly as possible. We advise public companies on periodic reporting compliance, insider trader and other regulatory matters.

Venture capital investments, private equity and merchant banking are other areas that demand attention from financial services lawyers. We assist numerous venture capital, private equity and merchant banking firms with their investments and acquisitions. This practice also works with many companies that obtain venture capital investments or are sold to private equity or merchant banking firms. Familiar with the various structures of these arrangements, our exceptional knowledge of existing market conditions makes the firm well-suited to handle either side of the transaction.

With nine offices in the United States and Europe, our financial services lawyers are poised to work with domestic as well as international clients. We regularly counsel large corporate borrowers and lenders on their financial services.

Lawyers are a crucial component of your team. To learn more about SHB?s financial services lawyers, contact us today!