When financial services businesses or market participants need seasoned counsel who are deeply versed in the complexities of the market and the intricacies of its regulation — and can respond on a moment’s notice to meet a client challenge, they go to Bingham. Our securities practices provide clients with a fully integrated set of legal services focused on securities law and regulation.
One of the largest practices of its kind, Bingham’s securities team includes lawyers from the Broker-Dealer, Investment Management and Securities Litigation Practice Groups, who work together to offer clients a fully integrated set of legal services focused on securities law and regulation. We provide broker-dealers, investment advisers, investment managers, investment banks, mutual funds, hedge funds and other private investment funds, accounting firms, insurance companies, public companies, officers and directors with representation, advice and counsel across a broad spectrum of sophisticated regulatory and compliance issues, complex financial transactions and litigation, enforcement and counseling matters. We offer focused, results-oriented and cost-effective representation to our clients.
What sets us apart?
Our team is large, highly skilled and pulls in unison. Members include those whose careers have been focused on financial institutions, markets and market participants — seasoned law-firm practitioners working in tandem with distinguished alumni of the Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA, the securities agencies of various states, the North American Securities Administrators Association, the U.K. Financial Services Authority and several former general counsels or other senior in-house lawyers from leading financial services companies. Many of our clients see us as lawyers’ lawyers — and consult us to provide advice and assistance with their most sophisticated issues.
Our industry leadership position is strong. Our attorneys are industry thought leaders — founders or leaders of industry organizations, innovators of unique transactional structures, negotiators in global settlements. Through our work as Independent Settlement Consultants under the auspices of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or other regulators, or appointment under section 166 of the U.K. Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 as Skilled Persons, we have helped restore confidence in the investment markets. Our size enables us to develop business specialty groups focused on securities issues as they affect the accounting, brokerage, mutual fund and hedge fund and other private investment fund industries in the U.S. and around the world. Our Investment Management practice group has been awarded a “band 1” ranking by Chambers, the world’s leading publisher of client law guides since 2007. We are one of the few law firms to maintain a dedicated trading & markets practice, and we are generally recognized as the leading state regulatory defense practice in the U.S.
Our platform enables us to assist our clients with their projects around the corner and across the globe. With strategic locations in leading international financial and regulatory centers such as New York, London, Boston, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., we can address issues ranging from day-to-day operations to cross-border regulatory issues and provide coordinated services for our clients. Our affiliate Bingham Consulting Group helps national and global companies create national approaches for their state issues.
Our commitment to our clients is unwavering. Our commitment to the growth and development of this practice is long-term and significant. This enables us to recruit leading legal personnel at all levels from key regulatory agencies and from the industry, deepening our knowledge base and providing clients with the most focused and cost-effective level of representation, focused on driving matters to successful conclusion.