Overview
Nutter's banking and financial services attorneys represent clients in a wide range of banking and financial services matters. We represent our clients in all legal aspects of their loan and investment transactions, as well as their regulatory, corporate, and litigation needs.
Our clients
Our clients include the full range of financial institutions, such as commercial banks and bank holding companies, thrift institutions and thrift holding companies, trust companies, insurance companies and agencies, equipment leasing companies, non-bank subsidiaries, and real estate investment trusts.
Our practice
Regulatory and corporate matters
Mergers, acquisitions, and public and private sales of equity and debt securities for various types of banking and insurance companies, including trust-preferred securities
Organization of de novo banks
New structures, including mutual holding companies and conversions of mutual banks
New products and services, including insurance, investment products, trust services, collective investment and common trust funds
Corporate and regulatory advice
Loan structuring, negotiation and documentation
Corporate lending, including asset-based, unsecured and secured loans, credits with multiple pricing and currency options, agented multi-bank and multi-borrower credits, loan participations, mezzanine financing, commercial finance, and factoring
Lending to specialized industries, including high-technology companies, health care providers, educational institutions, senior housing, and low-income housing developers
Real estate financings
Workout, restructuring and bankruptcy
Represent secured and unsecured lenders and corporate trustees in pre-bankruptcy workouts, bankruptcy proceedings, litigation, foreclosures, and lender liability litigation
Equipment leasing
Represent originating lessors, syndicators and lease purchasers
Handle complex transactions involving a wide range of assets
Structure and analyze tax and leverage structures and public/private partnerships
Public finance
Represent municipal issuers, corporate borrowers, equipment lessors, investment bankers, corporate trustees, placement agents, and providers of credit enhancement and liquidity support for public financings
Certificates of participation
Executive compensation
Design and administer equity-based compensation programs on a company-wide and individual basis
Structure compensation programs on a tax-efficient basis, balancing performance and reward
Advise and counsel on compensation arrangements, including incentive and nonqualified stock option plans, and profit interests in partnerships and limited liability companies
Develop ways to reduce high-net-worth individuals' future estate taxes attributable to compensation-related asset