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Mr Gregory Lyons
Work Department
Gregory Lyons is a corporate partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group.
Position
His practice focuses on serving the needs of financial institutions, as well as private equity and other entities that invest in financial institutions, with a particular emphasis on domestic and cross-border bank regulatory, transactional and examination matters.
His practice includes U.S. and foreign bank regulatory, formation, merger, conversion, structuring securities and securities finance work, risk capital and trust matters and corporate and securities law matters. Mr. Lyons has represented banking and other financial institutions before the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and state banking and securities regulatory agencies. He has extensive experience counseling clients in the securities, securities finance, insurance and other non-banking financial service sectors regarding acquiring, leveraging and ongoing ownership of banking institutions, as well as advising banking organizations with non-traditional banking activities and assisting clients in the analysis of associated business and regulatory risks.
Education
Mr. Lyons received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1987. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1990.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Financial services regulation
(Leading lawyers)Debevoise & Plimpton LLP offers a highly specialized team dedicated to a full gamut of regulatory, litigation and transactional factors affecting banking institutions, foreign banks, and affiliated broker-dealers. Apart from its traditional clientele, the firm is also retained by non-bank institutions looking to enter the space or offer banking products, which includes insurers and private equity firms. Led by Satish Kini in Washington DC, a name to note for leading industry trade associations facing regulatory reform issues and Gregory Lyons in New York, with experience representing private equity firms in their investments, the team is capable with regard to Volcker Rule matters, US bank formation as well as foreign bank and M&A-related regulation. Corporate expert Jeffrey Robins is another standout in New York, acting for broker-dealers, swap dealers and securities exchanges in a range of matters, accompanied by recently promoted Caroline Swett, a key contact for domestic and foreign banks seeking regulatory, enforcement and transactional advice.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Finance > Financial services regulation
- Financial services regulation United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)