Overview
The Financial Guaranty Insurers Section of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell serves the needs of a wide range of clients, such as state insurance departments, insurers, reinsurers, investors, hedge funds, municipalities, and others, who have been affected by the uncertainty created by the subprime mortgage crises and its effect on the nation's financial guaranty insurers. Locke Lord's Financial Guaranty Insurers Section offers clients an experienced interdisciplinary team of insurance industry regulatory, corporate and litigation attorneys to assist in mitigating the effects of and surviving this crisis. The group offers the following combination of skills to address legal issues at any stage:
Investigations/Advice
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Strategic advice and policy development
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Attorney general investigations
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Insurance commissioner investigations
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Predatory lending/regulatory investigations
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Mortgage compliance review
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Congressional legislation advice
Finance
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Bankruptcies
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Restructuring
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Workouts
Transactions
- Distressed loan repurchase
- Sale of financial institutions
- Real estate portfolio sale
Securities
Litigation
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Fair Credit Reporting Act litigation
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White collar criminal defense
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Securities class action and derivative litigation
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Busted deal litigation
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Discrimination litigation
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Consumer class action litigation
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Insurance-related issues and litigation