MINNEAPOLIS — With businesses and financial institutions facing increasing challenges as the financial crisis deepens, the international law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP has created a Financial Crisis Working Group which brings together the firm’s expertise and strategic problem solving capabilities to advise clients coping with the rapidly changing financial landscape in the United States and around the globe.
The Working Group has access to resources across all of Dorsey’s offices in the United States, Europe and Asia and includes lawyers with backgrounds in financial services, bankruptcy and restructuring, real estate, litigation and government affairs.
The group is working with clients on the impacts of the unprecedented legislation working through Congress aimed at bringing stability to the international financial system, including banking, corporate finance and real estate markets. Proposals in the legislation could affect a broad array of issues including distressed loans, executive compensation, financial institution asset sales, mortgage foreclosures, and many others. Regulatory and market changes will also affect virtually everyone.
Dorsey (www.dorsey.com) has 650 lawyers in 18 locations in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia and represents a number of the world's most successful Fortune 500 companies.