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While investment bankers are often viewed as a new breed of "professional," the differences between investment bankers and other professionals, such as attorneys and accountants, are vast and greatly impact the issue of liability. Over the last decade, courts have recognized that as transactions evolve and become more sophisticated and complicated, the investment banker's role expands and diversifies. With such evolution has come an increase in exposure to liability under various state and Federal statutory and regulatory schemes, as well as an expanding common law.
As with investment bankers, the services offered by banking institutions has tremendously increased in recent times, in part as a result of affiliations with securities broker-dealers and insurance companies. Such increase in offerings has resulted in an expansion of the theories of liability under which banking institutions may face exposure to both clients and others.
Our attorneys are experienced in the representation of investment bankers and banking institutions in this context. We have successfully defended claims asserted in both Federal and state court under the variously applicable Federal and state securities, banking and consumer-protection laws, as well as claims asserting liability under common law theories of recovery.
