Sitting within a wider financial institutions practice, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP‘s team provides fund investment advice, and is lauded for ’consistently putting itself in the shoes of the regulatory agencies’ within both the banking and broker-dealer sectors. Skilled in SEC and FINRA examinations, public offerings, and governance issues, and regulatory advice in the scope of global strategic alliances, the group is able to assist with evolving regulatory requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III acts. Practitioners count private equity firms, bank holding companies, and a range of other financial services companies engaging in M&A as key clients. New York-based Sven Mickisch, managing partner of the firm’s financial institutions practice, leads the team alongside the financial services institutions practice chairman and founding partner Lee Meyerson, also in New York. Key support also comes from Tim Gaffney in New York regarding the regulatory aspects of transactions, investments and governance.
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Testimonials
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- 'The team has a robust understanding and prominent experience dealing with bank regulatory matters. Their private practice and prudential regulatory experience provide them with the requisite skill set to handle any bank regulatory matter. They are consistently putting themselves in the shoes of the regulatory agencies when dealing with legal and regulatory issues to better counsel their clients. To date, there have not been any issues that they have not been equipped to handle.'
- 'Amanda Allexon is an extremely talented and knowledgeable partner who is the go-to person for bank regulatory matters. She is practical, agile, and sees issues from all angles to best counsel her clients. She is a trusted partner to her clients and goes above and beyond to deliver high quality legal services.'
- 'A good depth and breadth of experience and expertise. A top-shelf option for bank M&A and regulatory and other financial services work. Trusted, credible, and reliable. Insiders in a good way. Lawyers are expert, responsive, and creative.'
Key clients
- Apax Partners LLP
- Baker Tilly
- Bayview Asset Management
- BharCap Partners
- Blackstone
- BTG Pactual
- Centerbridge Partners
- Charlesbank Capital Partners
- Computershare
- Everbank
- Grant Thornton Advisors LLC
- Hellman & Friedman
Work highlights
Represented Veritex Holdings, Inc. in its $1.9 billion acquisition by Huntington Bancshares Incorporated
Represented Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. in the significant expansion of its global strategic alliance with Jefferies Financial Group Inc.
Advised Wells Fargo on the pending sale of its rail equipment assets.
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Practice head
Lee Meyerson; Sven Mickisch
Other key lawyers
Amanda Allexon; Spencer Sloan; Tim Gaffney