Gordon, Feinblatt's Financial Services lawyers advise clients that are engaged in financial, banking and insurance business in Maryland. Our clients include banks, thrifts, credit unions, mortgage bankers and brokers, insurance companies and producers, HMOs, consumer finance companies, check cashers, industry trade associations and businesses that provide data processing and other services to the financial services sector.
For more than 30 years, attorneys in the Practice Group have advised financial service providers on all aspects of compliance issues, including consumer credit, deposit account and mortgage lending issues for banking interests and all aspects of insurance regulation. Along with the extensive experience developed over many years in these technical areas of law, attorneys in the Practice Group have developed local and national recognition through active involvement in professional organizations and educational presentations.
For the past two decades, attorneys in the Practice Group have lobbied Maryland legislators and members of the executive branch concerning laws and regulations that affect financial institutions doing business in Maryland. Among other businesses, the Firm is counsel to the Maryland Bankers Association and to the Maryland Association of Health Plans and is closely involved in legislative and administrative issues affecting banking and insurance.
Attorneys in the Practice Group also assist regulated financial services providers in connection with corporate and transactional work, including acquisitions, mergers, conversions, dissolutions, liquidations, receiverships and the creation of subsidiaries, holding companies and joint ventures. The Practice Group includes attorneys with a wide range of skills needed by regulated financial service providers, including attorneys with active practices in complex institutional financings and asset-based commercial lending, public and private securities law, bankruptcy and workout, real estate and environmental law and insurance regulatory advice.
The Practice Group provides services regarding insurance company and agent acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, market conduct examinations, domestications, name changes, insurance holding company formation and other regulatory filings. Members of the Practice Group assist clients in filing and obtaining regulatory approval of insurance products, as well as insurance company formation, mergers, acquisitions and restructuring.
A number of attorneys in the Practice Group devote their full attention to litigation involving financial products and services. These litigation efforts, both complex and general, have included cases alleging check fraud, non-filing insurance, mortgage lending concerns and discrimination. Attorneys in the Practice Group have been asked to serve as special counsel and as expert witnesses in complex cases concerning insurance fraud and in cases where compliance is at issue. Financial service providers rely on the Practice Group for representation in all stages of administrative proceedings before Maryland's Commissioner of Financial Regulation and Insurance Commissioner.