Banking and Financial Services

The Financial Services practice group is designed to provide a diverse client base of financial institutions and borrowers with personalized service to meet each client’s specific needs.

Financial services lawyers have represented lenders and borrowers in literally thousands of financing and investment transactions, from documentation to closing, with the quality and value that sophisticated clients have come to expect. Lawyers routinely represent financial institutions, individuals and legal entities in single bank or syndicated complex financing transactions such as construction loans, permanent loans, revolving lines of credit, letters of credit, and other forms of financing secured by various forms of real and personal property.

In addition to the department’s extensive experience in loans and investment transactions, lawyers have extensive experience in representing clients before the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Missouri Division of Finance, the Illinois Office of Banks and Real Estate, Bureau of Banks and Trust Companies, the Kansas State Banking Commission, and other state banking and financial regulatory authorities.

Many of the department’s lawyers are recognized as being the best in the nation in the areas of banking and finance and have assisted legislators in drafting legislation pertaining to finance law. With the enactment of the Graham-Leach Bliley Act, lawyers have the ability to keep clients abreast of the changing financial product landscape, and the latest changes in all areas of law pertaining to finance.

Practice Highlights

Of the 63 Armstrong Teasdale attorneys named to the most recent edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, two were named top Banking and Financial Services lawyers.

Related Practice Areas

The Financial Services practice group utilizes a multi-disciplinary team approach, using the knowledge from different practice groups including the following:

Members of the Banking and Financial Services Practice Group

Cousins, Steve	Murray, Mark
Engel, Rick	Nelson, Ford
Graham, Bob	O'Brien, John
Hanser, Fred	Pozaric, Steven
Inkley, Jack	Schlomann, Christine
Keller, Tami	Sharp, Jarrod
Leslie, Bruce	Sullivan, John
Louis, Phil	Wazlawek, Mike
Machon, Mary	Yeoman, Callan