- Administrative Practice and Governmental Affairs
- Appellate Practice
- Automotive Dealers
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights
- Commercial Real Estate
- Commercial, Complex, and Class Action Litigation
- Construction Law
- Corporate and Business Practice
- Corporate Rapid Response Task Force
- Corporate/Public Finance and Securities Law
- Economic Development
- Education
- Environmental Law
- Estate Planning and Probate
- Federal, State and Local Taxation
- Financial Services
- Foreclosure, Real Estate and Commercial Loan Workouts
- Healthcare (Business and Regulatory)
- Healthcare and Medical Liability
- Insurance Defense and Coverage Law
- Intellectual Property
- Labor and Employment Law
- Media Law
- Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Dispositions of Businesses
- Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations
- Pharmaceutical, Biologic, and Medical Device Litigation
- Products Liability
- Professional Liability and Licensure Matters
- Tax Credits
- Utility and Energy Law
Financial Services
Practice Groups
Financial Services
Our financial services practice group handles a broad range of sophisticated banking, servicing and lending matters. Our practice is integrated with our real estate, bankruptcy, corporate, and litigation practices, which allows us to bring to bear the expertise of colleagues from various fields to provide business-oriented, practical advice appropriate to the specialized needs of our client and the transaction at hand.
We represent banks and other financial institutions with respect to a broad range of commercial lending transactions. Several of our lawyers offer more than 20 years’ experience in the representation of financial service entities.
We represent a number of financial institutions and credit providers. These clients include many financial institutions based here in Alabama as well as regional and national institutions. We offer expertise in matters of commercial, real estate, and consumer lending transactions as well as loan servicing, foreclosure and commercial leasing. In addition, our lawyers defend financial services entities in litigation of all types, including actions arising under federal lending, mortgage, and collection laws as well as state real estate and licensing laws.
In addition to our courtroom work, we frequently advise financial clients on risk management matters, and we also offer experience in regulatory compliance issues and institutional formation, operations, and governance issues. Among other things, we have drafted internal operating policies, credit manuals, and similar documentation for banking clients.
Finally, we offer significant experience and expertise in the following areas:
- Commercial Lending Documentation (Creditor Representation)
- Real Estate Lending Documentation (Creditor Representation)
- Distressed Loan Defaults, Workouts, & Reorganizations (Creditor & Borrower Representation)
- Foreclosure Services (Creditor Representation)
- Dispute & Conflict Management & Resolution (Creditor Representation)
- Corporate Organization & Governance
- Consumer Lending & Retail Banking