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Pillsbury has extensive experience in advising and representing financial institutions regarding the full spectrum of their business, from transactions to regulatory compliance issues to corporate operations.
Pillsbury provides business-critical advice to a wide variety of financial institutions—from large multinational banks to local and regional banks to private equity and investment funds—headquartered around the world. Our broad industry experience spans all facets of compliance, transactional, corporate operations and litigation-related challenges encountered by financial services industry clients. When undertaking matters for financial institutions, Pillsbury’s primary goal is always to achieve our clients’ commercial objectives with an absolute minimum of regulatory burden while helping to assess and resolve our clients’ business risks. We can accomplish this because we have a comprehensive understanding of the industry and the multitude of regulations governing it. We have lawyers with focused and deep experience in the wide range of legal disciplines applicable to financial institutions who work collaboratively to afford clients’ clear perspective about the challenges and opportunities they face.
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Backed by more than 65 years of experience, Pillsbury’s Asset Finance team structures, negotiates and closes transactions for various types of assets, including aircraft, ships, rolling stock and containers. We represent some of the most active international banks and investors in the financing of transportation-related assets as well as other kinds of collateral, such as floating drilling rigs, satellites and manufacturing equipment. We have substantial experience with international export credit agencies and government-supported programs, such as Ex-Im Bank.
Our Capital Markets team advises on all types of equity and debt transactions, from IPOs to follow-on and secondary common stock offerings and from convertible debt to high-yield and investment-grade secured and unsecured debt offerings. We also advise on Regulation D and other private placements, restricted securities resales under Rules 144 and 145, insider trading restrictions, Investment Company Act of 1940 compliance and exemptions, stock repurchase programs, and filings relating to significant stockholders and tender offers. We represent issuers, underwriters, agents, broker-dealers, investment advisers, investment and venture funds, institutional investors and private investors, among other securities market participants. Since 2010, Pillsbury has served as counsel in 725 public and other underwritten securities offerings with an aggregate value exceeding $280 billion. Our firm is especially known for its capital markets work in the energy, technology and life science industries, as well as its work with REITs and financial institutions.
Pillsbury lawyers provide comprehensive counsel on all types of over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives and structured products to a wide range of clients, including dealers, asset managers, funds and corporate end users. We help structure, negotiate and document derivatives and structured products transactions, whether they are stand-alone or embedded in larger financings, and provide regulatory advice to our clients. We are experienced across asset classes, including equity derivatives, credit default swaps, commodity hedging, fixed income, real estate and foreign exchange.
Fintech, Payments & Blockchain
Pillsbury has helped set industry standards for regulatory compliance and corporate governance in the Fintech space for many years, developing high-level strategy for some of the biggest names in banking along the way. Our team has an extensive history of advising clients on issues related to virtual currencies, loyalty programs and closed-loop stored value systems, and has also provided counsel on how financial regulations apply to digital currency such as Bitcoin since the exchange’s earliest days.
Pillsbury regularly represents financial institution and corporate clients in international and U.S. financing transactions. We structure complex transactions including leveraged buyouts and are regarded as innovators of novel financing structures, including some of the first amend-and-extend and hybrid amend-and-extend/forward-start facilities, and the development of multi-tranche capital debt facilities. With deep understanding of the market across all industries, we position our clients to achieve their commercial lending and borrowing goals.
Pillsbury regularly advises the world’s leading financial institutions, sponsors and developers on the development, acquisition and financing of projects that shape the future. The firm has helped clients lay the groundwork for sophisticated projects across the United States and in more than 75 countries across six continents, earning praise as one of the field’s premier legal advisers. With their experience, Pillsbury lawyers also possess the imagination necessary to devise novel solutions that enable clients to achieve their business objectives.
Approximately 30 dedicated legal practitioners in Washington, DC, New York and California focus exclusively on providing sophisticated financial regulatory advice regarding complex banking and securities regulatory matters for both U.S. and international financial institutions. Our team includes lawyers who have worked for government agencies that regulate financial institutions. From more than 50 years of interacting with staff members at state and federal agencies, we have developed professional relationships and experience, enabling us to provide effective regulatory guidance with a business perspective.
Trade & Export Credit Agency Finance
Voted Export Credit Agency Law Firm of the Year and North America’s Best Trade Finance law firm, Pillsbury provides strategic guidance worldwide on export credit and other development finance institution funded transactions. Our experience includes (i) financings involving ECA, DFI and multilateral finance organizations in more than 40 countries (ii) the issuance of Ex-Im Bank supported bonds, (iii) traditional trade financing, (iv) highly structured cross-border financings of assets and infrastructure projects supported by government guarantees or insurance, and (v) commodity finance transactions.
Combining industry-specific dispute resolution experience with strong working relationships with regulatory authorities, Pillsbury’s Financial Services Litigation team represents financial institutions in the U.S. and around the globe. From litigating class actions to defending clients in DOJ, IRS, and other regulatory and government agency probes to structuring unprecedented settlements between Swiss financial institutions and U.S. prosecutors, Pillsbury helps financial institutions resolve disputes on favorable terms through courts, arbitration or other means of dispute resolution. We also provide legislative, regulatory and reputational advice.
Workout, Restructuring, Enforcement and Bankruptcy
Pillsbury’s Insolvency & Restructuring practice lawyers represent financial institutions in dealing with troubled credits. Whether the financial institution is a sole lender or the agent for a syndicate, Pillsbury handles the workout and restructuring or enforcement and bankruptcy, as the credit dictates. In addition to traditional real estate and personal property financing, Pillsbury has experience in areas with special legal and regulatory characteristics, including agriculture, digital media, Federal Communications Commission-regulated industries, energy, health care and numerous others.
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