Mayer Brown represents financial services companies in public policy and regulatory matters. Strategically positioned at the intersection of global finance and government policy, Mayer Brown possesses both the advocacy capabilities and the broad legal experience in financial services necessary to effectively represent financial services companies in the most complex and important matters.

Mayer Brown’s Regulatory, Compliance, Policy & Government Affairs lawyers cover the full range of financial regulatory services – banking, insurance, broker-dealer, and asset management. Our teams provide tailored advice on the full range of regional, national and international requirements facing today’s highly regulated financial services institutions and their investors, partners and counterparties. We have decades of experience navigating the complex web of regulatory requirements to satisfy supervisory expectations, create innovative solutions and close the deal. We draw on our extensive relationships and experience working with national and local financial regulators to obtain the necessary regulatory approvals. Our practice spans business and product lines and the lifecycle of investments and financing transactions. We not only work with all types of financial institutions on complex transactions and product rollouts but also represent their investors, partners and counterparties in similar transactions and joint ventures.

Our team has decades of experience as advocates and as former senior government officials participating in the legislative, regulatory and enforcement processes. Mayer Brown lawyers have held senior financial regulatory positions within the federal government, including at the White House, the US Senate Banking Committee, the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, as well as at federal financial regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

This experience has placed Mayer Brown lawyers at the center of nearly every major financial services legislative and regulatory initiative over the past twenty-five years. Consequentially, we have deep experience with legislative and comment letter drafting, the agency rule writing process and the Administrative Procedure Act, and congressional investigations. We also regularly represent clients before each of the financial regulators and Congress, including preparing witness for congressional hearings, drafting testimony, and crafting advocacy strategies.

Our Capital Markets practice is comprised of leading corporate and securities lawyers, advising issuers, underwriters and agents in domestic and international, private and public financings. We advise on a wide variety of equity, equity-linked and debt offerings. We have over 400 corporate and securities lawyers around the globe, with 140 lawyers working on capital markets transactions across 15 offices.

“Maintaining a balance between issuer and underwriter-side work, Mayer Brown is best known for its firepower in financial services-related offerings." The Legal 500 US Or, put simply: we know banks. Our capital markets lawyers all have significant experience with financings for financial institutions, which require a special constellation of attributes. Assisting financial institutions in their capital raising requires bank regulatory expertise, tax sophistication, ERISA expertise, and, of course, securities and capital markets capabilities and market context. We understand short-term funding, from CP and ABCP to bank products, like CD programs; benchmark funding in the US, Euro and other markets; securitization, and CRT; and structured products. Few firms can say that.

The Legal 500 says, “The firm remains at the forefront of representing financial institutions in their debt offerings.” We are especially known for our work advising on investment grade debt issuances and continuous offering programs, including medium-term note (MTN) programs, bank note programs, 144A offering programs, structured products programs, CD programs, CP and ABCP programs, covered bonds, and other similar programs.

We have a broad-based equity capital markets practice spanning the financing continuum. We advise on exempt offerings and the full gamut of SEC-registered offerings. The volume of transactions we handle provides us with essential market context, which benefits our clients. We are always current on key developments and familiar with expectations of investment banks.

Our team has the intellectual depth, creativity and geographic scope to successfully navigate virtually any type of financial services legal dispute, enforcement action or investigation in the Americas, Asia and Europe. We solve complex, high-stakes disputes, regulatory, law enforcement and other legal and reputational issues for a wide range of financial institutions, including more than half of the world’s largest banks. Areas of focus include:

• Antitrust & Competition
• Banking & Finance Litigation
• Consumer Litigation & Class Actions
• Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement
• Congressional Investigations
• Global Investigations & White Collar Defense
• Securities Litigation & Enforcement
• Supreme Court & Appellate

Mayer Brown’s Fintech group brings together an integrated multipractice team to support clients with transactions, disputes and regulatory matters at the intersection of financial services and technology. We deploy our in-depth understanding of the business, technology and regulation of the financial services industry to help clients build and protect digital platforms, implement digital and data-driven strategies and comply with laws.

Mayer Brown’s Fintech team has advised clients on developing and launching innovative financial services products including related to artificial intelligence, banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance, technology transactions, InsurTech, PropTech, MortgageTech and digital assets, blockchain & cryptocurrency.

Mayer Brown’s Financial Markets Regulatory & Enforcement (FMRE) group serves the regulatory and enforcement needs of financial market participants, providing creative and practical solutions informed by industry knowledge. Our broker-dealer, securities, commodities, derivatives and financial services regulatory and enforcement lawyers are closely integrated, which allows us to advise clients on the most complex regulatory, compliance and enforcement matters, as well as on internal investigations.

Our practice includes a deep bench of alumni who worked for governmental agencies, self-regulatory organizations (SROs), and various market participants (including former general counsel and chief compliance officers), as well as federal prosecutors and other government officials.

Mayer Brown stands out as a premier financial services law firm with deep experience in financial services M&A transactions. Clients turn to our Financial Services M&A team for their extensive industry and market knowledge to facilitate effective deal management and best-in-class client service. With deal-savvy M&A practitioners, we have the depth and experience to anticipate and resolve the most critical issues likely to arise in complex mergers and acquisitions. We take an interdisciplinary approach to supporting transactions with seamless collaboration across practice groups and jurisdictions. We offer a practical and commercial approach to transactions for all our clients, regardless of deal size. Whether navigating intricate regulatory frameworks, structuring deals, or conducting due diligence, we are trusted advisors for clients seeking success in the dynamic world of financial services transactions.