Banking

Buckley Kolar provides regulatory, supervisory, enforcement, legislative and transactional advice to banks, thrifts, industrial banks, bank and thrift holding companies, and other financial institutions. Our bank clients include major regional, national, and international organizations, as well as community banks or  “specialty” banks and thrifts chartered to provide services to the financial services community.

We provide advice on the full range of legal and regulatory issues that face financial institutions, including the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering requirements; transactions with affiliate issues; data security and privacy issues; retail lending and deposit-taking and related consumer protection issues; electronic banking and commerce issues; other new product and regulatory issues; regulatory enforcement and compliance matters; outsourcing transactions; and corporate and securities matters.

We assist financial institutions to work with federal and state banking regulators. We prepare and file regulatory applications, including applications for new charters or new powers, formal and informal requests for interpretive opinions, advising clients about the regulatory laws and regulations applicable to their activities.  We represent financial institutions and individuals in formal and informal enforcement proceedings before government regulators; and provide examination support, including pre-examination preparation, assistance in handling regulators’ inquiries and post-examination follow-up.

Our attorneys have extensive experience and insight in dealing with federal and state regulatory agencies.  Several of our attorneys have prior professional experience at a number of regulatory and enforcement agencies.

For more information about the services we offer in this area, please see our banking practice brochure.