Financial Services Regulatory/Compliance

Understanding that financial services clients require highly sophisticated and effective legal service, Winston & Strawn advises on compliance with federal and state laws and regulations, advocating our clients' interests in agency proceedings and policy deliberations, and ensuring the timely completion of acquisitions, mergers, and other transactions.

The firm’s financial services practice represents U.S. and non-U.S. firms before federal and state regulatory agencies, legislatures, and courts, as well as before arbitration panels and international tribunals. Our clients include banks, thrifts, insurance companies, management companies, securities firms, and other financial companies.

The attorneys in our financial services practice group have actively participated in implementing the major U.S. legislation affecting financial firms over the last three decades, including the laws governing financial services integration, enhanced supervisory oversight, money laundering prevention, privacy, corporate governance, and financial and public reporting.