Mr Peter Weinstock > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
1445 ROSS AVENUE
SUITE 3700
DALLAS, TX 75202
TEXAS
United States
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Mr Peter Weinstock
Work Department
Financial Institutions Corporate & Regulatory
Position
Partner
Career
Mr. Weinstock’s practice focuses on corporate and regulatory representation of a wide range of financial institution franchises.
During the past several years, Mr. Weinstock has devoted substantial time to strategic planning, bank compensation and defense of enforcement matters, including concerning fair lending and BSA. He is Co-Practice Group Leader of the Financial Institutions Section. He has counseled institutions on more than 375 M&A transactions, hundreds of securities offerings, including over a dozen IPOs, and capital planning, over 50 de novo banks and hundreds of administrative and other enforcement actions. He was a guest lecturer for Harvard’s Kennedy School of Public Policy in Beijing, China in 2017 and 2018.
Mr. Weinstock is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributor to numerous external publications, Hunton Andrews Kurth’s client alerts and blog posts.
Memberships
Admitted to the Texas State Bar
Education
- JD, Duke University School of Law, 1985
- BA, State University of New York, 1982
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Fintech
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has a multi-faceted practice with strong credentials for representing banks, financial services and wealth management companies, while also doing an increasing amount of work for emerging and established fintech companies. The team’s capabilities cover the full spread of related issues, from compliance, regulatory, cybersecurity and data privacy matters, through to corporate financings, M&A, outsourcing and partnership agreements. The team is led by Erin Fonté, who co-chairs the financial institutions, corporate and regulatory practice from Austin. Another key partner is New York’s Lisa Sotto, global head of the firm’s privacy and cybersecurity practice. The firm is making a push into the blockchain and distributed ledger space, with Washington DC partner Scott Kimpel a lead contact. The Dallas office hosts several top partners, including Peter Weinstock, who is active on the financial institutions side, and Jarrett Hale, who co-chairs the firm’s financial services litigation and compliance group.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate