Banking/Financial Services

Perkins Thompson serves the legal needs of a wide variety of Maine-based, regional, national, and international commercial banks, thrift institutions, credit unions, mortgage companies, financial institution service companies, and financial institution holding companies. The lawyers serving the financial services industry bring to bear varied expertise to best respond to the particular needs of the client in any legal matter.

The services offered by Perkins Thompson span the needs of the financial services community from the day-to-day activities of consumer, mortgage, and commercial lending transactions and state and federal regulatory compliance questions to more complex and sophisticated issues confronting financial institutions, such as the formation of the institution, conversions, holding company formations, service corporation formation, mergers and acquisitions. The Banking/Financial Services Practice Group regularly provides advice to its financial institution clients on general corporate issues, workouts, foreclosures, creditors' rights, taxation questions, employment and employee benefits matters, real estate questions, general and specialized litigation matters, and regulatory developments affecting clients' businesses.