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Banking and Financial Services

The Banking and Financial Services industry faces unique macroeconomic conditions, geopolitical uncertainty and fluctuating market conditions. The need for informed counsel with relevant experience and integrated capabilities is key.

Representing public and private financial institutions in their most significant transactions, regulatory, dispute resolution, employment and emerging technology issues for over 130 years, Phelps' Banking and Financial Services team understands the day-to-day and long-term business considerations that organizations face in this evolving industry.

We aggressively monitor market trends. As we look ahead, the prominence of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing and emergence of virtual currencies and digital assets are among some of the open-ended challenges facing banking and financial institutions. With a flood of new technologies transforming the industry coupled with fluctuating consumer confidence, many in the industry are grappling with how it will all play out.

We are here to help.

Banking & Finance Key Services:

    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Corporate & Securities
    • Lending & Finance
    • Bankruptcy & Restructuring
    • Litigation
    • Real Estate
    • Government Investigations
    • Cybersecurity
    • Labor & Employment
    • Intellectual Property

FinTech

FinTech startups, regional and super-regional banks and other evolving financial institutions rely on Phelps' thoughtful approach to make informed, practical decisions on both traditional and cutting-edge issues. We provide full-service counsel through each period of innovation, disruption and opportunity to put your institution on solid yet adaptable footing. 

 FinTech Key Services

    • Bank partner agreements
    • Servicing agreements
    • Closed-end loan programs
    • Open-end loan programs
    • Card programs
    • Wage access programs
    • Digital assets programs
    • Payments programs
    • BSA/AML compliance
    • Privacy compliance
    • Payment rails compliance
    • Policy development
    • Loan sale agreements
    • Receivable sales agreements

Experience

$1.9B

Bank M&A

116-year-old financial services institution with 200 locations, as primary outside corporate, securities and M&A counsel. Advising in over $1.9 billion of cumulative acquisitions, helping the client expand from one state to seven across the Gulf Coast, and increase its total assets from $400 million to $17 billion.
$4.9B
A Fortune 500 bank with over $400 billion in assets in over 2,000 matters, including its predecessor as counsel in a $4.9 billion acquisition. Today, Phelps represents the bank in hundreds of millions in loan transactions each year across the country, including recent $100 million-plus loans to organizations in Alabama, Florida, Texas and Louisiana.
An emerging crypto-mining enterprise in its private financing for construction of a mining facility in Texas.
Multiple FinTech startups, including an emerging digital wallet company, a leading digital health financial services provider, and a high-growth sports software startup, as regulatory, commercial contracts and lending counsel.
Multiple super-regional banks and global financial companies in bankruptcy matters, including recently i) the largest secured creditor in set of compounding pharmacy affiliate Chapter 11 cases with over $75 million in issue; ii) secured creditor client in set of affiliate residential and commercial construction entities with over $30 million in debt in issue including recovery of fraudulent transfers in excess of $5 million; and iii) secured lienholder in successful litigation on leveraged sale and buy-out with $20 million in collateral in issue in recent environmental Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
A global investment firm as its go-to firm for employment counsel, including drafting their U.S. company-wide handbook, incentive plan documents, separation agreements, the company-wide ADR agreement, and confidentiality agreements. We also provide training for HR managers; counsel through headcount reduction and represent in litigation across the U.S., including recent cases in Florida, New York, Connecticut and Washington, D.C.
A European multinational bank in a number of high-stakes litigation matters in Louisiana concerning sensitive antitrust issues.
A super-regional financial institution in review and guidance on its cyber incident response plan.

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