Practices
Education
- J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, 1984
- B.A., Lehman College of the City University of New York, 1981 (Honors)
Bar Admissions
- New York (1987)
- New Jersey (1985)
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2000)
- U.S. District Courts for the Southern (1999) and Eastern (2001) Districts of New York (1999) and the District of New Jersey (1985)
News
- Pryor Cashman’s Raice and Lamonica Author Legal Update About Selling a Community Bank
- Pryor Cashman’s Raice and Lamonica Author Legal Update About Buying A Community Bank
- Pryor Cashman’s Raice and Lamonica Author Legal Update About Tier 1 Undercapitalization
- Pryor Cashman’s Raice and Lamonica Author Law360 Article About The "Troubled Condition" Designation
- Pryor Cashman Team Wins Major Victory for U.S. Judgment Creditors Under Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
- Pryor Cashman Wins Trial Against Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of the Republic of Turkey and Obtains $25 Million Judgment For Client
- Pryor Cashman Represents Quontic Bank Holdings Corp. In Acquisition of Golden First Bank
- Pryor Cashman’s Pinchus D. Raice and David Thomas Win Prestigious Burton Award For Legal Writing
- Sinners at the Pearly Gates - A Primer on the Standards of Admission to the Banking Fraternity
Publications
Attorneys
Pinchus D. Raice
Partnerpraice@pryorcashman.com
New York, NY 10036-6569
Pinchus Raice is the Chairman of the Financial Institutions Group. Pinchus 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 counsel to numerous New York and New Jersey-based commercial and savings banks in a wide 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 has extensive experience representing financial institutions in informal regulatory enforcement actions, such as commitment letters and board resolutions, memoranda of understanding and safety and soundness compliance plans, and in formal enforcement actions, including consent orders, cease and desist orders, formal written agreements, safety and soundness orders and PCA and capital directives. Pinchus also has extensive experience representing boards of directors in a broad range of administrative enforcement matters and court proceedings, including defense of civil money penalty actions and removal and industry bar orders and defense of FDIC-receivership lawsuits claiming breach of fiduciary duty.
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 Robert C. Lamonica), Selling A Community Bank: Practical Tips, Pryor Cashman Legal Update (January 2012)
- Co-author (with Robert C. Lamonica), The Framework For Buying a Community Bank, Pryor Cashman Legal Update (December 2011)
- Co-author (with Robert C. Lamonica), 15 Percent Tier 1 Leverage: Undercapitalized?, Law 360 (December 2011)
- Co-author (with Robert C. Lamonica), “Troubled Condition” Designation – A Trap for the Unwary Community Banker, Pryor Cashman Legal Update (November 2011)
- 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
