Banking and Financial Lawyers
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The Curtis Banks and Financial Institutions practice represents clients worldwide in all of the major financial sectors, including investment and commercial banking, mortgage banking, asset management, retail brokerage, insurance, credit and private equity.
Our banking lawyers provide advice to financial institutions in their capacity as lenders, investors and underwriters on a wide spectrum of deals. The Banks and Financial Institutions practice also serves financial institutions in diverse areas including antitrust, arbitration, derivatives, employment, financial institution regulatory issues, internal investigations, mergers and acquisitions, securities, tax, and white collar crime and regulatory defense.
Curtis' banking and finance lawyers have extensive experience representing bank lenders and corporate borrowers in the full range of both domestic and cross-border financings, such as:
- Term and revolving credits
- Note and bond offerings
- Complex leasing transactions
- Trade finance
- Securitization
- Project finance
- Carbon and renewable energy credits
On the restructuring and insolvency side, we provide assistance to banks dealing with the risks and consequences of potential or actual insolvency of their borrowers. Services include:
- Workouts
- Renegotiations
- Waivers
- Forbearances
- Enforcing loans in and out of bankruptcy
- Making bankruptcy DIP and exit loans
- Managing the consequences of receivership
- Negotiations with the FDIC
- Acquisitions of distressed loan portfolios
Our banking lawyers also provide ongoing counsel to management and outside directors on governmental regulatory and enforcement matters, litigation and transaction risks and exposure, dispute-resolution mechanisms, and directors' and officers' liability issues.
The Banks and Financial Institutions team advises our clients by drawing on the expertise of other practices throughout the firm. This interdisciplinary and cross-border approach allows the team to develop comprehensive strategies that address all of the legal and factual issues that are encompassed in any particular matter.
Counsel for Banks and Financial Institutions
The Curtis Banks and Financial Institutions practice represents clients worldwide in all of the major financial sectors, including investment and commercial banking, mortgage banking, asset management, retail brokerage, insurance, credit and private equity.
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Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP's banking and finance practice excels in advising corporate clients.
Legal 500 2021 - Oman Banking and Finance


Regularly sought out for complex financing deals.
Legal 500: EMEA 2022 Italy Banking and Finance: Lender or Arranger side
I would highlight above all their willingness. They are always willing and very present and attentive to the clients.
Legal 500: Latin America 2022 Banking and Finance
The Italy team specialises in advising high-profile clients on complex financing transactions.
Legal 500 EMEA 2021 - Italy Banking and Finance: Borrower side
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP's banking and finance practice excels in advising corporate clients.
Legal 500 2021 - Oman Banking and Finance


Regularly sought out for complex financing deals.
Legal 500: EMEA 2022 Italy Banking and Finance: Lender or Arranger side
I would highlight above all their willingness. They are always willing and very present and attentive to the clients.
Legal 500: Latin America 2022 Banking and Finance
The Italy team specialises in advising high-profile clients on complex financing transactions.
Legal 500 EMEA 2021 - Italy Banking and Finance: Borrower side
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP's banking and finance practice excels in advising corporate clients.
Legal 500 2021 - Oman Banking and Finance
