Services
Katten’s Corporate Practice provides sophisticated transactional representation and business counseling to national and global companies in a wide range of industries. Attorneys in the practice work closely with those from other disciplines, including tax, labor and employment, antitrust, environmental and intellectual property, to provide our clients with comprehensive representation in their business transactions. Our core practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, private equity and securities.
Our Financial Services Practice advises a broad range of participants in the financial services arena, including broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, investment advisors, finance companies, investment bankers, futures and securities exchanges, commodity trading advisors, pension funds, banks and insurance companies, as well as investment vehicles such as hedge funds, commodity pools, venture capital funds and private equity funds, securitization vehicles, mutual funds and bank collective investment funds. Katten’s financial services attorneys are well-versed in the latest developments in the industry, especially those involving regulatory matters.
Our Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice has nearly 200 attorneys across the country dedicated to evaluating, fighting and resolving our clients’ most difficult problems. Our litigation track record and trial victories have earned us top recognition in Chambers USA, Benchmark: Litigation, Lawdragon 500, Martindale Hubbell and the Law360 Litigation Almanac. However, it is our unfailing drive to understand fully our clients’ business and litigation objectives that sets our litigators apart. This understanding makes us better business partners in the long run, and better advocates for matters on the immediate horizon.
With a nationwide client base, the Banking Practice represents financial institutions including banks, savings associations, credit unions, trust companies and their parent holding companies on a broad range of federal and state regulatory issues before the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Home Loan Bank System, and various state bank regulatory agencies.
Our Insurance Capital Markets Practice works with a variety of clients to structure and implement transactions involving the convergence of the insurance business with the domestic and international capital markets. We represent insurers, reinsurers, investment banks, investment managers, hedge funds, private equity funds, life settlement providers and other clients seeking to transfer and manage risk and raise capital in innovative ways.
Our Structured Finance and Securitization Practice assists clients in successfully confronting the unique challenges posed by the credit crisis through loss mitigation efforts, restructurings and workouts of CDOs and RMBS/ABS transactions, the creation of distressed asset and opportunity funds, and the management of subprime and credit crisis-related litigation and investigations.
Our Antitrust and Competition Practice has the depth and experience to advance client litigation and business objectives with insight and efficiency in an increasingly competitive and litigious environment. As antitrust counselors, we think outside the box to help clients achieve their strategic goals. These efforts range from structuring transactions and business dealings creatively to minimize antitrust risk, to assisting antitrust enforcement authorities in blocking mergers that could damage our clients’ interests in the marketplace.
Our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice provides innovative solutions that make the most of a changing environment as employers plan, design and implement employee benefit and executive compensation plans and programs. We take an active role both in the boardroom and in the courtroom. We address legal questions that lack well-defined answers creatively, efficiently and pragmatically.
Our London affiliate, Katten Muchin Rosenman Cornish LLP, focuses on the financial services sector, including investment funds, regulatory and related corporate work, general banking and real estate finance. Together, the London and U.S. firms offer expert, integrated legal advice which is particularly well placed to service the needs of clients undertaking transatlantic business.
