Financial institutions are constantly navigating new risks in the quest for growth. Their success depends on advisors who understand the industry’s complex and evolving regulatory, technological, and legal needs.

Perkins Coie’s Financial Institutions industry group advises a wide variety of financial institutions in traditional capital markets transactions, innovative technology-focused growth, and litigation defense. Located in offices across the United States, we represent leading national banks, local banks, syndication agents, loan participants, private equity funds, and hedge funds.

Our attorneys provide comprehensive representation of financial institution clients. We advise syndication agents and corporate trust departments in domestic and cross-border capital market transactions, lead financial institutions as they redefine themselves as technology companies, and advise and defend financial institutions in disputes and investigations in an increasingly regulated environment.

As advisors to innovators, Perkins Coie attorneys are positioned to assist financial institutions as their boundaries with technology continue to overlap. Our integrated, multidisciplinary practice includes attorneys with a deep understanding of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, distributed ledger, blockchain, and digital currencies. They not only understand how these technologies are deployed, but also how they affect trust banks, financial companies, and corporate law departments.

Our transactional attorneys regularly handle complex deals and offer efficient, cost-effective insight into the terms and structures our clients can and should seek for their financial transactions. Our attorneys maintain leading-edge familiarity with market terms, structures, and techniques, which helps ensure clients arrive at the optimal deal, both financially and in terms of business flexibility.

When conflicts threaten or arise, clients benefit from the capabilities of one of the strongest benches of litigators in the business. Our attorneys possess experience in a broad range of disputes involving financial institution and corporate governance matters, as well as investigations involving the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Financial Institution Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and other regulatory agencies. Perkins Coie attorneys have handled prominent white collar cases and civil litigations and possess a deep understanding of complex financial transactions.