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Pinchus D. Raice

Pinchus Raice represents financial institutions and individuals in negotiating and completing mergers and acquisitions in the community banking industry, and represents banks and bank officers and directors before all federal and state bank regulatory agencies, including contested administrative proceedings. Pinchus has served as outside counsel to numerous New York and New Jersey-based commercial and savings banks in a broad range of matters; as in-house counsel to a New York savings bank; and as a federal bank regulator with the FDIC’s New York office.

Pinchus’ practice includes the representation of commercial banks, corporations and individuals in complex commercial litigation involving banking and intellectual property matters. Pinchus has extensive experience representing commercial and savings banks, publicly and closely held corporations, commercial real estate investors and other individuals in a broad range of bank-related litigation, including bank fraud litigation, directors’ and officers’ liability suits, accountants’ liability suits, letters of credit litigation, Uniform Commercial Code claims and real estate-related litigation.

Pinchus recently represented one of the nation's largest real estate holders in the acquisition of a controlling interest in a bank that is among the fastest growing commercial banks in the country, and the selling shareholders of a bank in the sale of that institution to a publicly traded bank holding company while concurrently representing the selling institution in a threatened Financial Crimes Enforcement Network action seeking civil money penalties for alleged violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, obtaining a very favorable outcome.

In June 2008, Pinchus and co-author David Thomas received the Burton Award for Legal Achievement for their article Sinners at the Pearly Gates - A Primer on the Standards of Admission to the Banking Fraternity. The presentation was made at the Library of Congress.

Publications

• Co-author (with David C. Thomas), Sinners at the Pearly Gates - A Primer on the Standards of Admission to the Banking Fraternity, 124 Banking L.J. 579 (July/August 2007) 

Professional Affiliations

• New York County Lawyers Association, Member, Committee on Banking (1988-96)

Distinctions

• Burton Award For Legal Writing 2008