Smith Anderson is a full-service business and litigation law firm serving regional, national and global companies. The firm regularly counsels financial institution clients with structuring and executing formations, merger and acquisition transactions, assets, line of business and branch purchases and sales, capital markets transactions and recapitalizations and helps clients navigate regulatory applications, examinations and enforcement actions. Lawyers across the firm?s different practice areas regularly advise financial institution clients on corporate, public company reporting, tax, real estate, employment, employee benefit, litigation and other legal issues regularly encountered by financial institutions. In addition, the firm?s Banking and Finance group has extensive experience representing financial institutions and their affiliates across the country in corporate and syndicated finance, mezzanine finance, real estate finance, venture debt and technology finance and fund finance.