Overview

Corvane Ryle advises banks, broker-dealers, insurers, asset managers, exchanges and payment companies on the transactions, regulatory questions and disputes that define their businesses. Our lawyers work in New York, London, Frankfurt, Brussels, Singapore and Washington, D.C., which allows us to follow a client's questions from a US prudential rule to a European supervisory expectation without changing teams.

Financial institutions are operating under sustained pressure. Capital and liquidity rules continue to evolve in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, and supervisors have sharpened their focus on operational resilience, third-party risk and the use of artificial intelligence in credit, fraud and customer service. Private credit funds now compete with banks for lending relationships, while banks look to partnerships, risk transfers and portfolio sales to manage balance sheets. Enforcement agencies, including the SEC, the CFPB, the OCC and national authorities in Europe and Asia, continue to examine sales practices, anti-money laundering controls and sanctions compliance.

We bring together M&A, capital markets, banking and private credit, restructuring, tax, antitrust, privacy and investigations lawyers. Clients value that we pair deal execution with an informed view of how regulators will react. Benedikt Sauerland in Frankfurt leads our banking and private credit work in Europe, and Rafael Monteverde in New York advises issuers and underwriters on capital markets transactions for financial sector clients.

Clients also turn to us when the stakes are highest: a supervisory finding, a failed counterparty, a contested merger or a sudden market dislocation. Because our regulatory, restructuring and litigation lawyers sit alongside our deal teams, we can mobilize quickly, give consistent advice across jurisdictions and keep senior management informed with a clear view of options.

Representative experience

• Advised a global bank on a cross-border portfolio sale and the related regulatory approvals.
• Acted for an insurance group on the acquisition of a specialty underwriter, including change-in-control filings in six jurisdictions.
• Represented the arrangers of a multi-currency syndicated facility for a European industrial group.
• Advised Northwall Capital on a direct lending platform and its bank partnership structure.
• Counseled a regional bank on third-party risk management and operational resilience reviews.
• Represented a broker-dealer in a regulatory inquiry concerning communications recordkeeping.
• Advised an asset manager on a continuation fund transaction and related investor consents.
• Acted for ad hoc lenders in an out-of-court liability management transaction.
• Advised a payments company on licensing and sponsor bank arrangements in the United States and Europe.