Financial Services

Banking + Finance

Our Banking + Finance Group provides skillful, straightforward legal counsel, regulatory compliance support, and day-to-day legal guidance to a wide range of banks, financial organizations, and corporate clients.

We have extensive experience representing financial institutions in lending, mergers + acquisitions, complex financings, 1940 Act transactions, and asset securitizations. We also represent banks, their officers, and directors before all federal and state bank regulatory agencies, including in contested administrative proceedings, investigations, and enforcement actions.

Financial Institutions

The lawyers in our Financial Institutions Group advise on and assist with a wide range of matters, including forming and growing banking businesses, bank acquisitions, compliance (including CAMEL ratings), regulatory inquiries, defending against enforcement actions, handling government investigations and litigating receivership lawsuits, to name a few.

FinTech

Our team works with FinTech companies to meet their unique needs by advising them on corporate issues, guiding them through the thicket of applicable regulations, and advocating for them in government inquiries and investigations. Our attorneys are thought leaders on this emerging interplay, regularly meeting with both blockchain and cryptocurrency industry leaders and high-level government regulators to discuss existing regulations and potential changes to those regulations.

Investment Management

With clients ranging from emerging managers to leading global investment firms managing billions in assets, our investment management attorneys advise clients throughout the lifecycle of their asset management businesses.

Pryor Cashman attorneys help investment managers with launching new private investment funds and negotiating separately managed accounts. We advise RIAs and CTAs on their compliance obligations and guide clients who look to form new investment advisers, bring on senior executives, or spin out from or join established advisory firms. Finally, in the event of disputes, our litigators are vigorous advocates for our asset management clients, with a proven record of success.

Private Equity

Pryor Cashman’s Private Equity practice focuses on middle-market transactions and works with nearly every type of stakeholder across the private equity investment spectrum. Representing buyout firms, family offices, financial sponsors, management, limited partners, lenders, placement agents, and portfolio companies, among others, we bring the vision and insight to turn our clients’ dreams into reality.

We regularly advise on leveraged buyouts, co-investments, joint ventures, dispositions, debt and equity financings, “club” deals, and leveraged recapitalizations, as well as M&A transactions between private equity firms and their related companies. Drawing on key resources and practices across our firm, we offer holistic solutions to our private equity clients that consider the potential tax, financing, ownership, compensation, human capital, and restructuring implications of every deal.