Financial Institutions

Cravath has been a leading advisor to a broad array of financial institutions for decades. Our clients include commercial banks, including both domestic and international money-center banks and large U.S. regional banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, non-traditional lending sources, private equity funds, hedge funds, asset managers and investment advisors. Our corporate practice includes representing these financial institutions, or their boards of directors, in connection with significant corporate transactions, including mergers, divestitures, spin-offs and capital market activities, such as IPOs and other debt and equity capital-raising activities involving an institution’s own balance sheet. Our litigators routinely tackle the most significant cases in the industry, including representing financial institutions (or their outside directors or special committees) in securities class actions, antitrust class actions, RICO class actions, mergers & acquisitions litigation, bankruptcy litigation and shareholder derivative actions. Our litigators handle matters at the trial and appellate levels, in arbitrations and before government and regulatory bodies.