Kenneth L. Bachman, Jr. Partner, Washington Office Kenneth L. Bachman is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Bachman's practice focuses on financial institution and economic sanctions matters, ranging from corporate and securities transactions to regulatory and compliance advice, including internal investigations and resolution of administrative and enforcement proceedings. Mr. Bachman has participated in the development and issuance of numerous innovative capital securities by banks in the United States and globally. He has also advised and assisted in debt and equity investment transactions by strategic and other investors, including development of the structure for the recent private equity investment in Doral Financial. Mr. Bachman regularly assists financial institutions and other clients with OFAC and related sanctions matters. He has represented SWIFT in the resolution of data subpoenas issued by OFAC. He represented Kuwait in the asset freeze and licensing program imposed during the invasion and occupation by Iraq. He represented the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Mexico in the NAFTA financial sector trade negotiations and the Government of Chile on financial services, investment and other services FTA negotiations with the United States. Mr. Bachman lectures and is widely published on the various aspects of banking, securities and sanctions law, including "OFAC Compliance for Non-U.S. Financial Institutions," Banking and Financial Services Review (October 2006). Mr. Bachman joined the firm in 1970 and became a partner in 1976. He received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1968 and an undergraduate degree from Ohio University in 1965. Mr. Bachman also served as law clerk to the Honorable Irving Ben Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Bachman is a member of the Bar in the District of Columbia and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Derek M. Bush Partner, Washington Office Derek M. Bush is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Bush's practice focuses on advising domestic and international financial institutions and foreign sovereigns regarding U.S. bank regulatory matters and legislation. His advisory practice spans a wide range of matters, including compliance with anti-money laundering laws, expansion of powers and activities, geographic expansion, restructurings, corporate governance and investments by and in banking organizations. Mr. Bush s practice also includes representing financial institutions in connection with corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, privatizations, capital markets transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Mr. Bush also advises financial institutions and their boards of directors, employees and shareholders in internal investigations and in enforcement proceedings involving the U.S. federal banking agencies. In his advisory, corporate and enforcement practices, Mr. Bush represents clients before the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Banks, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of Thrift Supervision and the New York Banking Department. He is distinguished as one of the leading banking lawyers by Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business. Mr. Bush is a frequent speaker on regulatory and corporate matters affecting banks and other financial institutions. His recent publications include "Suspicious Activity Reporting: Recent Developments and Guidance on Key Issues" in The Review of Banking and Financial Services (Nov. 2005) and "U.S. Regulation of International Activities of U.S. Banking Organizations" in Regulation of Foreign Banks (2003).
Mr. Bush joined the firm in 1995 and became a partner in 2003. He received a J.D. degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He received an undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Princeton University in 1989. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Bush served as law clerk to the Honorable Emilio M. Garza of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Bush is a member of the Bar in the District of Columbia. His native language is English, and he speaks Spanish and Swedish.
Nicolas Grabar Partner, New York Office Nicolas Grabar is a partner based in the New York office. His practice focuses on international capital markets and securities regulation and on the representation of large reporting companies. He plays a primary role in the firm s work for clients including leading Mexican and Brazilian companies, several Fortune 100 companies and global investment banks. Mr. Grabar has extensive experience in international financings in public and private markets, in U.S. securities law and regulations applicable to foreign issuers, and in the regulation of financial reporting. He has also specialized in the telecommunications and natural resources sectors, and has advised on acquisitions, joint ventures, privatizations and debt restructuring. IFLR1000, The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms, lists Mr. Grabar as a "Leading Lawyer" in capital markets. He is distinguished by Chambers Global Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers for his Latin American corporate and finance and both his U.S. and Brazilian capital markets experience. He is also recognized as one of the leading corporate lawyers by Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business. In addition, Mr. Grabar has been named as one of the best capital markets lawyers by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. Mr. Grabar chairs the annual Practicing Law Institute program on foreign issuers and U.S. securities regulation, and he has served on the securities regulation committees of several bar associations. He has spoken and published on legal opinion practice, securities regulation, international securities offerings, privatizations and securitizations of financial assets. Mr. Grabar joined the firm in 1984 and became a partner in 1991. From 1985 to 1989, he was resident in the Paris office. Mr. Grabar received a J.D. Degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1982 and an undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1978. He also served as law clerk to the
Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Grabar is a member of the Bar in New York and has been admitted to practice in France. His native language is English, and he is fluent in French and proficient in Spanish and Portuguese.
John C. Murphy, Jr. Partner, Washington Office John C. Murphy, Jr., is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Murphy s practice focuses principally on financial institution matters and on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, as well as on corporate governance issues. He represents financial institutions, investors and boards of directors in connection with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings and financings, regulatory and supervisory issues, new product development, enforcement proceedings and international transactions and proceedings. Mr. Murphy has extensive experience advising foreign governments, international organizations and private sector clients on financial sector restructuring, privatizations, and troubled institutions. Mr. Murphy is distinguished as one of the leading banking lawyers by Chambers Global The World s Leading Lawyers and Chambers USA America s Leading Lawyers for Business. Mr. Murphy has also been recognized in Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC s Guide to the World s Leading Banking Lawyers, Law Business Research Limited s The International Who s Who of Banking Lawyers, and The Best Lawyers in America for Banking Law. In addition, Mr. Murphy was named in Euromoney Legal Media Group s Best of the Best Guide. Mr. Murphy lectures and is published on banking, thrift and securities matters and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Banking Policy Report and Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report. Mr. Murphy joined the firm in 1977 and became a partner in 1982. From 1984 to 1987, Mr. Murphy served as General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and from 1975 to 1977, as Special Counsel with the Office of the Bank Study of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He received a J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1972 and was a graduate fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Study of Financial Institutions. Mr. Murphy received an undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1967.
Mr. Murphy is a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia and California, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia and the Third Circuit. He has served as Chairman of the Executive Council of the Banking Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association and as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Bank and Bank Holding Company and Acquisitions and Dispositions of the Banking Law Committee of the American Bar Association.
Linda J. Soldo Partner, Washington Office Linda J. Soldo is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Soldo s practice focuses on financial institutions, including with respect to regulatory, supervisory and enforcement matters, as well as transactional matters. In her regulatory practice, Ms. Soldo advises financial institutions and their broads and senior management teams with respect to compliance, examinations, investments, corporate governance, supervisory oversight and enforcement proceedings. She advises clients in matters involving the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision. She also has extensive experience counseling financial institutions and corporate clients in complex structured finance transactions, regulated investments and joint ventures, as well as mergers and acquisitions, assisted transactions, mortgage securities and real estate transactions. Ms. Soldo is distinguished as one of the leading lawyers in banking and in capital markets by Chambers USA America s Leading Lawyers for Business. Ms. Soldo joined the firm in 1981 and became a partner in 1990. She received a J.D. degree from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in 1981, where she graduated first in her class and was Managing Editor of the Catholic University Law Review. She received her undergraduate degree from Manhattanville College in 1972. Ms. Soldo is a member of the Bars in the District of Columbia and Maryland, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
A. Richard Susko Partner, New York Office A. Richard Susko is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Susko's practice focuses on employee benefits and executive compensation, including fiduciary and tax aspects of pension fund investment, employment agreements and golden parachutes, stock options and other executive incentive compensation plans. He also has extensive experience in the benefit aspects of mergers and acquisitions, ESOPs, plan terminations and interplay of the bankruptcy laws and benefit-related obligations. Mr. Susko frequently lectures on employee benefits topics and co-chaired the annual PLI program on legal issues involved with the investment of pension plans subject to ERISA for more than 20 years. Mr. Susko was distinguished as a "star performer" and ranked in the top tier for leading individuals in executive compensation and employee benefits by Chambers USA America s Leading Lawyers for Business. He is also listed in the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook as a "leading individual" for labor and employee benefits. Mr. Susko joined the firm in 1974 and became a partner in 1982. He received J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University in 1974, an LL.M. degree in taxation from New York University in 1980, and an undergraduate degree from Union College in 1969. Mr. Susko is a member of the Bar in New York and is also a charter member of American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Mr. Susko is an Adjunct Professor of Executive Compensation at New York University School of Law and a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.