BFKN has a long history of serving the financial services industry across many of our practice groups. We have decades of experience and have represented over 300 financial institutions in recent years (including more than a dozen credit unions), ranging from $100 million community institutions to multi-billion dollar publicly traded regional banks. Our firm’s focus on this industry begins with our Financial Institutions Group, a practice group made up of 30 dedicated attorneys focused on serving financial institutions in the Midwest and nationwide.

BFKN’s other practice groups collaborate with our Financial Institutions Group to serve clients in the financial services industry for all their legal needs, including:

Bankruptcy

Fintech

Mergers & Acquisitions 

Compensation & Employment

Insurance

Real Estate

Corporate & Securities

Intellectual Property 

Regulatory & Compliance

Corporate Governance 

Litigation

Tax 

Among our attorneys are former legal counsel to regulatory agencies and those who are nationally recognized in their field. Our relationships with the regulatory agencies, both federal and with many states, and with securities regulators, are excellent. We pride ourselves on the results we have helped our clients achieve within the regulatory process, through our thorough understanding of what is effective and our mutual respect that has been established over time.


Industry Contacts

  • Cryptocurrency Wallet for Public Fintech Payments Company
    Represented a public Fintech payments company in launching a cryptocurrency wallet for its millions of customers, by addressing consumer protection issues, preparing the company’s customer disclosures, designing storage, transfer, trading, fork, and other policies and procedures, and drafting third-party vendor contracts.
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
    Since 2000, S&P Global Market Intelligence rankings has listed our firm as one of the top firms in the nation in number of announced bank and thrift merger and acquisition transactions. Our firm ranks #1 in the Midwest and #3 in the U.S. respectively. In total, we have represented buyers and sellers of financial institutions in more than 300 mergers and acquisitions.
  • Regulatory Examinations, Enforcement Actions, & Troubled Banks
    Assisted numerous clients regarding regulatory examination issues and negotiated over 150 enforcement actions. Represented many troubled banks and their insiders regarding insolvency and potential receivership issues.
  • Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS)
    Successfully negotiated scores of partnerships and helped banks and fintechs evaluate and launch new credit, lending, cryptocurrency, investment, and payments products and offerings.

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