Joseph A. Kanefield Partner Phone: 602-798-5468 Email: kanefieldj@ballardspahr.com 1 East Washington Street, Suite 2300, Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Website: www.ballardspahr.com
Ballard Spahr LLP is a national firm of more than 500 lawyers, providing a full range of legal services to financial institutions from 13 offices across the country. Our clients range in size from some of the largest banks and finance companies in the United States to small, closely held enterprises, and include both traditional brick-and-mortar and Internet-based financial services providers. Our nationally-recognized consumer financial services practice handles a broad range of bank and consumer financial services regulatory and transactional matters.
Engelman Berger, P.C. assists lenders in creatively solving their legal problems. EB is comprised of experienced bankruptcy and litigation attorneys who represent lenders in loan workouts, receiverships, collection actions, enforcement of right in collateral, and all aspects of bankruptcy. By listening to its clients and having a wealth of experience, EB tailors its approach to the client's objectives and the economics of the problem. In these difficult economic times, EB provides the legal services lenders need to address troubled or distressed loans.
Folks & O'Connor PLLC offers personalized service in protecting teh Arizona interest of banks, mortgage services and other lending institutions in commercial and consumer loan workout, bankruptcy, foreclosure, eviction and mortgage deficiency, receivership litigation and other creditors' rights litigation. Larry Folks currently represents several of America's largest mortgage lenders on a high volume basis regarding residential mortgage loss mitigation, foreclosure, eviction and bankruptcy cases. Mr. Folks is a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law and a Certified Bankruptcy Specialist by the State Bar of Arizona and in Business Bankruptcy by the American Board of Certification, a former partner of a national law firm and is the current past Chairman of the Bankruptcy Section of the State Bar of Arizona.
Gallagher & Kennedy, P.A. is a full service business law firm with offices in Phoenix, Prescott, and Santa Fe. Our clients include individuals, growing businesses and Fortune 500 companies.
Kevin R. Merritt / Jeffrey Miller / Kevin J. Blakely / Michael R. King 2 N. Central Avenue, 15th Floor Phoenix, AZ 85004 Phone: (602) 256-4493 / (602) 256-4467 / (602) 256-0566 / (602) 256-4405 Direct: (602) 256-4481 Fax: (602) 256-4475 Email:kmerritt@gblaw.com / jmiller@gblaw.com / kblakley@gblaw.com / mking@gblaw.com Web:www.gblaw.com
Gammage & Burnham is a full service business law firm dedicated to providing our client with high quality legal services with the best possible results in the most efficient manner possible. Founded in 1983, we remain locally owned and operated with a focus on business that has enabled us to build expertise in a number of industries including financial institutions. This focus allows us to provide value both in the short term solution of immediate problems and in the long term understanding of our clients' business needs.
Jeffrey H. Verbin 2375 East Camelback Road, Suite 700 Phoenix, AZ 85016 Phone: (602) 445-8202 Fax: (602) 445-8630 E-Mail:VerbinJ@Gtlaw.com
The marketplace is changing at light speed. And so is the law. That is why being at the top in business is about tomorrow, not today, and why businesses that want to lead expect attorneys who are built for change. At Greenberg Traurig, we’ve grown to more than 1750 attorneys and 29 offices, an example of the firm’s instincts for leveraging a changing marketplace. Our culture places the power to get results on the individual, embracing each attorney’s multidimensional skills and commitment to community. We hire talent that possess a rare combination of legal, business and leadership abilities. They guide clients through the very moments their businesses and markets are changing most and, supported by the firm’s award-winning technology platform, have been at the center of some of the most pivotal cases and transactions around the world. Our Phoenix attorneys represent decades of local experience, complemented by the global reach of the Greenberg Traurig network. They assist clients in a wide range of legal areas, including commercial litigation; construction; corporate and securities; finance; financial institutions; franchising; governmental affairs; intellectual property; labor and employment; public finance; real estate; reorganization, bankruptcy, and restructuring; tax, trust and estates; and white collar criminal defense.
Sean O'Brien One E. Washington, Suite 1600 Phoenix, AZ 85004-2327 Phone: (602) 257-7954 Fax: (602) 340-1538 Web:www.gustlaw.com
Gust Rosenfeld provides full-service representation to banks and other financial institutions through its Banking Practice and its Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Creditors' Rights Practice. Our expereienced attorneys represent local, regional, and national financial institutions, including banks, leasing companies, insurers, and more. Gust's experienced litigators have argued complex banking and bankruptcy cases on behalf of financial institutions at the highest levels, including the United States Supreme Court. Gust attorneys are widely recognized experts in foreclosure related issues, including two authors of the State Bar of Arizona's publication, the Ins and Outs of Foreclosures, with extensive experience handling judicial and non-judicialforeclosures, deeds in lieu of foreclosure, receiverships, and deficiency guarantor actions.
Our attorneys have extensive experience in serving as general counsel for commercial banks and thrifts. In this capacity, the firm's attorneys advise clients with respect to highly complex transactions such as private placements of debt and equity securities, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, holding company reorganizations, de novo bank charters, regulatory applications, loan documentations and new products and services. Jones & Keller represents many of its financial institutions clients before state and federal agencies. Jones & Keller attorneys have also assisted clients in finding bank merger candidates, and we have assisted with merger negotiations, acting as lead counsel in such transactions and rendering advice related to federal and state securities laws.
Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, PLC
Robert J. Novak Member One East Washington Street Suite 1900 Phoenix, AZ 85004-2554 Phone: (602) 262-5833 Email:rnovak@jsslaw.com Web:www.jsslaw.com
Jennings, Strouss & Salmon is dedicated to representing Bank Directors and Officers with their specialized and individual needs. With over 100 years of collective experience, the firm's Bank D&O Liability team counsels clients facing difficult and sensitive regulatory issues by helping them navigate federal, state and local laws implemented and enforced by various government agencies, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Office of Thrift Supervision and state banking regulators. Our attorneys are AV rated and have been recognized by the American College of Trial Lawyers, Southwest Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America. Jennings, Strouss & Salmon is one of the Southwest's leading law firms, with offices in Phoenix and Peoria, Arizona and Washington, D.C. The firm's other areas of practice include bankruptcy, reorganization and creditors' rights; corporate, securities and finance; energy; health care; intellectual property; labor and employment; litigation; real estate; and tax, trusts and estates. For additional information, please visit www.jsslaw.com.
Ryley Carlock & Applewhite has historically been known as a "lender's firm".We provide comprehensive legal services to banks in lending transactionsand disputes , loan restructurings and workouts, loan enforcement, bankruptcy and regulatory activities from both our Phoenix and Denver offices. We structure, negotiate and document a wide variety of lending transactions, including syndicated credits, loan participations, operating lines of credit, conduit loans, mezzanine loans, letters of credit, and construction, acquisition and development loans, including borrowing base facilities.We assist banks in enforcing their rights against borrowers and guarantors who are unable or unwilling to honor their obligations, and regularly represent banks in litigation, arbitration, mediation and bankruptcy proceedings, including the defense of lender liability claims.The lending practice is complemented by a number of other practice areas, including real estate, bank regulation and licensing, environmental and natural resources, taxation and intellectual property, which round out the broad range of expertise required to effectively serve our banking clients.
Jennifer Hadley Dioguardi, Esq. One Arizona Center, 400 E. Van Buren Phoenix, AZ 85004 Phone: 602-382-6000 Fax: 602-382-6070 Email: jdioguardi@swlaw.com Web: www.swlaw.com
Snell & Wilmer LLP is a full service law firm with over 400 attorneys in offices located In Phoenix, AZ; Tucson, AZ; Denver, CO; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Orange County, CA; Reno, NV; Salt Lake City, UT and Los Cabos, Mexico. Snell & Wilmer provides a full range of litigation, transactional and advisory services to financial institutions throughout the West.
John Welch Two Renaissance Square 40 North Central Avenue, Suite 2700 Phoenix, AZ 85004-4498 Phone: (602) 528-4000 Fax: (602) 253-8129 E-Mail:jwelch@ssd.com
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey is a full service law firm with offices located throughout the United States . Its lawyers have extensive experience and expertise representing banks and holding companies of all sizes and types. The firm offers services to financial institutions in a wide variety of areas and specialties, including mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and restructuring, regulatory compliance, compensation and benefits planning, retail financial services, real estate, loan and financing transactions, insurance and securities activities, litigation, bankruptcy and tax.
1850 North Central Avenue, Suite 2100 Phoenix, AZ 85004-4584 Phone: (602) 279-1600 Web:www.stinson.com
Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP is one of the country's largest law firms, with more than 330 attorneys. We have offices through the Midwest, as well as in Phoenix and Washington D.C. Stinson Morrison Hecker's financial services attorneys represent more than 400 financial institutions and confront banking issues on a daily basis. Our attorneys help financial companies navigate the web of federal and state regulations to ensure compliance and achieve their business objectives. Recently, we assisted many of our financial institution clients in deciding whether to apply for TARP funds. We also advise financial institutions on all of the regulatory, corporate securities, tax, ERISA, real estate, and antitrust issues that financial companies face in M&A transactions, including purchasing the assets of failed banks. Our financial services attorneys have been recognized by The American Banker as leading advisors in banking M&A transactions.
Quarles & Brady is a firm that knows its clients, not just the law. We handle the gamut of legal matters encounetered by financial service institutions, but not until we understand the specific business, objectives, preferences and other unique operational aspects of each individual client. From our seven offices in four states, we handle comprehensive and complex cross-practice matters for financial institutions across the country, both large and small, including loan documentation, corporate governance, bankruptcy, regulatory matters, loan restructures and modifications, tax, litigation, employee issues and loan enforcement. We emphasize our understanding of business objectives and practical approach to problem solving and loan enforcement. Of course our attorneys are highly experienced practitioners; they are also responsive, cost-conscious, long-term thinkers who understand that legal representation is part of thier clients' strategies, not the point of them.
