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Pillsbury provides regulatory and compliance counsel to a wide array of financial services firms around the globe.
For more than 50 years, Pillsbury has been helping U.S. and international financial institutions achieve their business objectives with minimal regulatory burden and risk. Based in the key U.S. financial centers of New York, Washington, DC, and California, our lawyers work on complex banking and securities regulatory matters. We represent more than 200 financial services organizations ranging from some of the largest industry players to mid-size and regional financial institutions and community banks.
Our Financial Services Regulatory lawyers advise financial holding companies, banks, thrift institutions, insurance and reinsurance firms, broker-dealers, investment advisers, private equity funds, trust companies and industry trade groups on the full range of financial services regulatory matters and resolve intricate compliance challenges. Our team regularly guides major U.S. and international financial institutions through BSA/AML and OFAC compliance and enforcement matters and advises on the design and implementation of risk-based compliance programs covering all areas of operations, including banking transactions, charge card processing and travel services compliance and screening programs, voluntary disclosures, negotiated settlements, anti-money laundering, unclaimed property and privacy matters.
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At the federal level, our Financial Services Regulatory lawyers work extensively with the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury Department, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Office of Foreign Asset Control, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Small Business Administration. At the state level, we regularly appear for clients before state financial services regulators including the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation and the New York Department of Financial Services.
With team members who have worked for government agencies and as former general counsel at some of the nation’s largest financial institutions, and coupled with decades of interaction with key staff members at both state and federal agencies, we have built effective professional relationships and have acquired extensive experience enabling us to offer clients keen insight, business perspective and effective regulatory guidance.
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Our firm is at the forefront of monitoring developments at the CFPB and takes a leading role among industry participants in analyzing policy determinations and developments. Further, we have extensive experience representing clients across the consumer financial services spectrum in high-profile CFPB investigations and enforcement actions and assisting them on compliance matters.
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