Allen & Overy today announced that Bill Satchell, a leading U.S. financial services regulatory lawyer with over 30 years of experience, has joined our Washington, D.C. office. Bill will work with partners Barbara Stettner, Chris Salter and Charles Borden to further strengthen our U.S. financial services regulatory practice in Washington, D.C.
Bill has experience across a wide range of financial services regulatory disciplines, enabling him to support our clients in the resolution of complex regulatory challenges.
Our Washington, D.C. office has expanded rapidly to over ten attorneys in a few short months since opening in July 2011, and serves as a new hub in our global regulatory network. The U.S. regulatory team has deep expertise across a range of areas which are critical to many of our clients including general banking regulatory and compliance, broker-dealer regulation, investment adviser regulation, and the intersection of political law and financial regulatory issues. Bill’s recruitment also adds capability in the areas of consumer finance and enforcement, some of it related to his involvement at a high level in the controversies related to residential mortgage-related documentation.
Doug Landy, head of the U.S. financial services regulatory practice, comments, “The financial services industry is becoming an increasingly global one – significant players in the market need a top international law firm that can advise them wherever they operate. We are one of the only financial services regulatory practices that offers the combination of a top-tier U.S. team with extensive top-tier capability in Europe and Asia. Bill’s addition to our growing team will add further depth and increase our abilities to service our global financial services clients across the rapidly changing regulatory landscape.”
Bill advises financial services organizations on transactional, adversarial, compliance and regulatory matters, including bank powers and structure, bank mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, fiduciary activities, broker-dealer and investment advisory activities, and in the resolution of enforcement actions.
