Financial ServicesWaller Lansden has an active financial services practice, representing members of the financial services industry and their customers. Our financial services practice calls on each of our other practice areas as needed to provide the required expertise with efficiency.
Our financial services clients cover the full spectrum within this diverse and dynamic industry, and we provide a wide variety of services to them. We represent holding companies, banks, trust companies, securities firms, mortgage lenders, credit card and electronic payment companies, insurance underwriters and agents, consumer finance companies, and manufacturer/vendor finance companies among others. We advise start-up ventures and seasoned public companies in a wide variety of corporate and strategic areas, including chartering/licensing, securities and financing matters (public and private), mergers/acquisitions and control contests, regulatory compliance, new product development, shareholder and employee litigation (individual and class action cases), ERISA and fiduciary law, and taxation. We also represent financial services companies in their dealings with customers. In this area, we represent secured and unsecured lenders, institutional investors, and trustees with respect to the full range of financial products and services. Our business clients also look to the firm's financial services attorneys to represent them in their dealings with this industry. We represent large and small businesses with senior and subordinated debt financings and institutional equity commitments, whether they be single lender transactions, securitized deals, or syndicated or multi-party facilities. We are regularly engaged as company counsel on transactions ranging from unsecured working capital facilities to secured acquisition and project financings. The multi-disciplinary practice of the firm provides additional support for clients engaging in special types of transactions, such as financing provided to healthcare companies and other regulated businesses, and those using special products like tax-exempt bonds, ESOPs, and synthetic and leveraged leases. |