NEW YORK, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Hunton & Williams LLP has formed a multidisciplinary Financial Industry Recovery Group to assist its clients in addressing the challenges and exploring the opportunities of the current financial crisis. The group is composed of lawyers with top-tier experience in the firm's practices involving financial institutions, regulation and capital formation, securitization, distressed assets, internal and governmental investigations, executive compensation and taxation, bankruptcy and business practice litigation.
"In these turbulent times, companies are facing greater legal challenges now than ever before. They must have complete confidence that their legal team has a broad base of experience to guide them through it all," said Wally Martinez, Hunton & Williams' managing partner. "At Hunton & Williams, we have assembled our leaders in these areas with depth of experience to help our clients address all of the issues they face in this difficult financial environment."
The group brings together diverse experience within the firm to address issues such as capital formation, bankruptcy and insolvency matters, managing liquidity, mergers and asset purchases, and regulatory issues, including opportunities presented by the recently enacted Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and the related Troubled Asset Relief Program.
"For more than 25 years, our firm has been a market leader in mortgage finance, representing clients in thousands of mortgage loan securitizations transactions and sales of performing and nonperforming mortgage pools and other financial assets," said Kevin Buckley, partner and a leader on the new team. "Our group brings a broad perspective and a keen understanding of the pricing, structuring, and regulatory capital considerations required to represent our clients in these matters."
The firm also has a strong internal and governmental investigations practice, which includes professionals with experience at the Federal Bureau of Investigations and other agencies, and a privacy and data security practice that has been ranked among the top in the United States and Europe. Hunton & Williams can address the full range of challenges its clients face in these turbulent financial markets.
In addition, Hunton & Williams has created a Financial Industry Recovery Resource Center website, where clients and visitors will find client alerts and other reference materials, text and analysis of relevant U.S. legislation, and breaking news related to industry and governmental developments. The website is http://www.huntonfinancialindustryrecovery.com/.
About Hunton & Williams LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP provides legal services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals, as well as to a broad array of other entities. Since our establishment more than a century ago, Hunton & Williams has grown to more than 1,000 attorneys serving clients in 100 countries from 19 offices around the world. While our practice has a strong industry focus on energy, financial services and life sciences, the depth and breadth of our experience extends to more than 100 separate practice areas, including bankruptcy and creditors rights, commercial litigation, corporate transactions and securities law, intellectual property, international and government relations, regulatory law, products liability, and privacy and information management. For additional information visit our website at http://www.hunton.com.
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