Financial Crisis Team
Financial Markets in Turmoil – How Schiff Hardin Can Help
The current economic and financial markets turmoil is causing dramatic legal and regulatory changes on a continuing basis. These changes present opportunities, many of which need to be evaluated and seized quickly. The turmoil will undoubtedly produce increased regulatory oversight, criminal and regulatory investigations and civil litigation.
Skilled and Experienced Interdisciplinary Team
Schiff Hardin has created a team that spans practice groups to provide comprehensive counsel on matters arising from current and future financial and economic conditions and the legal and regulatory change they have precipitated. In particular, our team can help you take advantage of opportunities created by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) and the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Seizing Opportunities
Our team can help you navigate through legislative and regulatory developments in the financial markets and assist you in analyzing how to approach new government programs. For example, we can advise on the disposition of "toxic" assets to the Department of Treasury under TARP, loans by the Treasury or Federal Reserve Bank, or the sale of preferred stock to the Treasury under the Capital Purchase Program. We are also familiar with the tax and executive compensation aspects of the EESA.
The following practice groups at Schiff Hardin are well positioned to assist clients in the areas noted above:
Financial Institutions
Securities and Futures Regulation
Finance
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
Tax
Meeting Challenges
As the fallout from the current economic and financial markets crisis and the impact of EESA unfold, our team can help you with the issues that are sure to arise. We can provide skilled representation to financial institutions such as banks and other organizations and individuals in the financial sector that become involved in government regulatory investigations or in private lawsuits.
The following practice groups at Schiff Hardin are well positioned to assist clients in the areas noted above:
Securities and Futures Regulation
White Collar Crime and Corporate Compliance
Labor and Employment
Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
Litigation
