Practice Areas

Banking and Financial Services

Ongoing fluctuations in the banking industry require a legal team capable of responding to the dynamic changes within the market place. The attorneys at Eastburn and Gray provide high quality legal services to financial institutions, typically in discrete project-based engagements. Our clients include some of the largest banking and financial organizations as well as many regional small and medium-sized banks, trust companies and lenders.

Our attorneys have represented commercial banking institutions in a variety of roles, including representation with respect to acquisitions of subsidiary service providers; real estate foreclosure acquisitions, construction, and land use matters; personnel and employment issues; and residential and commercial lending transactions.

The Banking practice group at Eastburn and Gray works closely with the Firm’s other practice areas to advise banks and trusts on legal issues arising in their personal and corporate trust businesses, including advice on how to structure and conduct trust operations. We closely monitor trends within the banking industry and use our comprehensive legal experience to provide sensible advice to meet your business goals.

Attorneys from Eastburn and Gray advise clients on all types of financing transactions, including:

• Commercial lending and other financing transactions
• Complex commercial real estate and asset based transactions
• Construction and land use project finance
• Consumer lending activities
• Corporate and personal trust matters
• Counseling on financial institution structuring and formation issues
• Debtor/creditor relations and bankruptcy
• Deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure
• Equipment finance
• Judgment enforcement and collections
• Leasing
• Loan documentation and collateral review
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Secured transactions
• Structured finance
• Workouts