Mayer Brown's banking and finance practice is a founding practice of the firm and continues to represent one of Mayer Brown's signature strengths. More than half of the firm's one hundred largest clients are bank holding companies, commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, leasing companies, asset-based lenders or institutional real estate companies.
Our banking and finance practice also represents numerous finance companies and fixed income funds, mezzanine investors, hedge funds, financial service boutiques, spin offs and other financial institutions and investors, as well as a large number of borrowers operating in many different businesses and industries.
As financial institutions become one stop shops, and transactions increasingly combine a broader range of products, including securitization and derivatives, the number of law firms which can meet all these requirements under one roof is declining. Mayer Brown is one of the few that has both the breadth of offering and the international platform to service these needs – particularly when markets are volatile and deal structures can change overnight. We have extensive experience in numerous areas of banking and finance including:
Chambers and Partners has described the firm as a "banking 'powerhouse' for its sheer manpower and global coverage" and as "technically excellent." With over 300 banking & finance lawyers across the Americas, Europe and Asia, our strength is based on our global platform and our balanced and integrated practice which encompasses all the specialty skill sets that our clients demand – from cross-border acquisition finance and international capital markets work, through to Islamic finance, project finance, securitization, derivatives and structured products.
We also offer a range of legal services to the banking industry, including:
