Financial Crisis + Recovery

Lawyers in the multidisciplinary Financial Crisis and Recovery Team help clients monitor, analyze, plan and respond to the dramatic changes and challenges in financial markets affecting global business.  The team includes attorneys from the firm’s U.S., Canadian and European offices with a broad range of experience in corporate and securities, finance, lending, employee benefits, government, litigation and real estate.

Our integrated approach allows us to tap into a broad range of expertise in order to respond instantly and creatively.  Team members counsel financial institutions, insurance companies, pension funds and fiduciaries, institutional investors and funds, corporate entities, and other market participants through the legislative, regulatory, and enforcement challenges and opportunities posed by the Troubled Asset Relief Act and other impending actions by Congress, Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, SEC, and state regulatory agencies.

Team members also advise clients on issues involving the exposures they may have in derivatives, including credit default swaps, CDOs and other securities Because these instruments have been bought and sold widely and in many cases without use of the customary documentation, they have created a great deal of risk and exposure that are particularly serious in a stressful economic environment.