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    400 Crossing Boulevard
    8th Floor
    Bridgewater, NJ 08807
    Phone:(908) 722-0700
    Fax:(908) 722-0755

    28 Valley Road
    Suite 1
    Montclair, NJ 07042

    New York

    7 Times Square
    21st Floor
    New York City, NY 10036
    Phone:(212) 808-0700
    Fax:(212) 808-0844

    Pennsylvania

    515 West Hamilton Street
    Suite 502
    Allentown, PA 18101
    Phone:(610) 391-1800
    Fax:(610) 391-1805

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    Banking & Financial Services

    For decades, we have assisted our banking clients with their transactional, litigation, and operational needs, as well as fulfilling their regulatory obligations. Our sole focus is on helping our clients achieve business goals while improving their bottom line.

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    Who We Are

    The vast experience of our banking and financial services attorneys enables us to provide clients with high-quality, cost-efficient legal services. We constantly seek to provide “value-added” services for our banking and financial services clients through conducting seminars, monitoring legal and industry developments, and creating new business opportunities.

    When appropriate, our banking attorneys collaborate with attorneys from our Environmental, Tax, Cannabis, and other practice groups.  This approach allows us to meet all of our financial service client’s needs in an efficient and effective manner. 

    What We Do

    Our clients include bank holding companies, commercial banks, savings banks, mortgage companies, credit unions, commercial finance companies, insurance companies, and other forms of financial service companies.

    For decades, we have assisted our banking clients with their transactional, litigation, and operational needs, as well as fulfilling their regulatory obligations. During this time, our sole focus has been on helping our clients achieve business goals while improving their bottom line.

    We constantly seek to provide “value-added” services to our banking & financial services clients through seminars, monitoring of legal and industry developments in New Jersey and the creation of new business opportunities.

    Financing Transactions

    • Secured and unsecured term and revolving-credit financings
    • All manner of tax-exempt financings including industrial development bonds
    • Economic development and public incentive loans
    • Equipment lease financings
    • Construction lending
    • Financing of emerging high technology companies
    • Conventional mortgage loans
    • Acquisition and ESOP financings
    • Letters of credit
    • All manner of syndicated financings including shared national credits and participations.
    • Public-Private Partnerships

    Litigation

    • Commercial and residential foreclosures
    • Loan default recovery
    • Asset recovery including replevin
    • Defense of Lender liability claims
    • Ponzi and other fraud schemes
    • Fraudulent transfer litigation 
    • UCC claims
    • Class action litigation
    • Yield spread premiums
    • Consumer fraud
    • Improper servicing claims
    • Automobile loans and servicing 
    • Realization of collateral in foreclosure proceedings or by UCC sales

    Workouts and Bankruptcy

    • Consensual restructurings of troubled loans (in and out of court), bankruptcy, receivership and assignment for benefit of creditor proceedings

    Organizational and Regulatory Matters

    • Obtain de novo bank charters and complete capital stock offerings for community banks
    • Provide advice on the Bank Holding Company Act
    • Attention to interstate banking issues
    • Counsel on proxy fights and other matters relating to potential changes in management control
    • Mergers and acquisitions of banking institutions
    • Issuance of trust-preferred securities

    Bank Operations

    • Day-to-day legal counseling
    • Employee matters including benefits & compensation issues, personnel policies, employee misconduct & investigations, immigration, and litigation
    • Branch expansion including leasing, real estate development, land use & zoning, and environmental counseling
    • Antitrust and marketing counseling
    • Protection of intellectual property rights

    9 Attorneys found

    Douglas R. Brown

    Member
    New Jersey

    Education

    • Case Western Reserve University School of Law
      • J.D.
    • Ohio Wesleyan University
      • B.A., cum laude, Economics and Accounting

    Area of Practice

    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Business Law
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Real Estate, Finance, and Land Use
    • Securities
    • Venture Tech & Emerging Growth Companies

    F. Peter Lehr

    Member
    Pennsylvania

    Education

    • Case Western Reserve University School of Law
      • J.D.
    • Vanderbilt University
      • B.A.

    Area of Practice

    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Real Estate, Finance, and Land Use
    • Health Care & Life Sciences
    • Health Care Providers
    • Hospitals and Health Networks
    • Municipal Law

    Joel N. Jacobson

    Of Counsel
    New Jersey

    Education

    • University of Pennsylvania Law School
      • J.D.
    • University of Pennsylvania
      • B.A., cum laude

    Area of Practice

    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights, and Financial Restructuring
    • Business Law
    • Franchise Law
    • Real Estate, Finance, and Land Use

    Melissa A. Peña

    Member
    New Jersey, New York

    Education

    • The American University Washington College of Law
      • J.D., cum laude
    • George Washington University
      • B.A., magna cum laude, Political Science

    Area of Practice

    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights, and Financial Restructuring
    • Litigation

    Peter D. Hutcheon

    Of Counsel
    New Jersey

    Education

    • Harvard Law School
      • J.D., cum laude
    • Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich, Germany
    • Williams College
      • B.A., magna cum laude

    Area of Practice

    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Business Law
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Securities

    Rebecca J. Price

    Member
    Pennsylvania

    Education

    • William and Mary School of Law
      • J.D.
    • Ohio State University
      • B.A., summa cum laude

    Area of Practice

    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights, and Financial Restructuring
    • Litigation

    Richard B. Somach

    Member
    Pennsylvania

    Education

    • Hofstra University Law School
      • J.D.
    • Lehigh University
      • B.A., with honors

    Area of Practice

    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights, and Financial Restructuring
    • Construction Law
    • Municipal Law
    • Real Estate, Finance, and Land Use

    Rikki Lamatino Field

    Member
    New Jersey

    Education

    • University of Pennsylvania Law School
      • J.D.
    • Washington University
      • A.B., summa cum laude
      • Phi Beta Kappa

    Area of Practice

    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Real Estate, Finance, and Land Use
    • Solar Energy

    S. Graham Simmons, III

    Member
    Pennsylvania

    Education

    • Villanova University School of Law
      • J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
    • Roanoke College
      • B.A.

    Area of Practice

    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Business Law
    • Economic Development Law
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Real Estate, Finance, and Land Use
    • Health Care & Life Sciences
    • Hospitals and Health Networks

    News

    August 10, 2023
    Compliance Guidelines for the New York Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (CFDL)
    November 4, 2021
    Norris McLaughlin Recognized in U.S. News – Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms
    August 19, 2021
    Fifteen Norris McLaughlin Attorneys Included in 2022 Best Lawyers® Lists
    November 5, 2020
    Norris McLaughlin Has Been Named a Tier 1 Metropolitan “Best Law Firm” in 11 Practice Areas by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in 2021
    September 1, 2020
    Sixteen Norris McLaughlin Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers®
    August 15, 2019
    Fifteen Norris McLaughlin Attorneys Named to 2020 Best Lawyers® List
    July 30, 2019
    Rebecca Price Appointed to Civic Theatre Board of Directors
    June 12, 2019
    Norris McLaughlin Members Admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court
    May 22, 2019
    S. Graham Simmons III Named Honorary Chair of the 31st Annual Children’s Home of Easton’s Golf Tournament
    May 8, 2019
    S. Graham Simmons III Named Pennsylvania’s Administrative Partner
    April 30, 2019
    Richard Somach to Speak at Bar Association of Lehigh County Breakfast Seminar
    April 25, 2019
    F. Peter Lehr to Speak at Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia’s Resident Education Day
    February 11, 2019
    Richard Somach to Speak at Lehigh Valley Real Estate Investing Meetup
    November 1, 2018
    Norris McLaughlin Recognized in U.S. News – Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms for Ninth Consecutive Year
    October 31, 2011
    Peter Hutcheon Presents on State of Investment Adviser Regulation and Trends in Industry
    November 3, 2010
    Joel N. Jacobson Named 2011 Best Lawyers Banking Lawyer of the Year in New Jersey

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