Banking

With a nationwide client base, Katten represents financial institutions including banks, savings associations, trust companies and their parent holding companies, on a broad range of federal and state regulatory issues before the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Home Loan Bank System, and various state bank regulatory agencies.

Our banking lawyers provide advice on:

• Banking laws and regulations, including applications and notices to federal and state banking agencies
• Branch acquisitions and sales
• Compensation matters for financial institution executives and personnel
• Enforcement actions before bank regulatory agencies
• Examination processes
• Formation of banks and thrift institutions, including the sale of stock
• Mergers and acquisitions of financial institutions, including acquisitions of troubled or failed institutions
• Powers of banks, including issues arising under the U.S. Patriot Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Bank Holding Company Act, and the Home Owners’ Loan Act
• Securities laws, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act and filings such as those on Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, Schedule 13-D and related filings for publicly traded bank and thrift holding companies
• Transactions with affiliates

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