Financial Services

Strategic thinking, attention to detail and practical solutions to complex issues are the keys to Ater Wynne’s successful service to clients in the banking and financial services industry. We work with institutions, corporations and organizations ranging from banks, life insurance companies, commercial mortgage companies, investment banks, pension funds, and state and local governmental entities in all types of debt financing, public financing, tax, executive compensation, estate planning and employment matters.

We also have extensive creditors’ rights, reorganization, and bankruptcy expertise.  Clients include institutional lenders, public utilities, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors’ committees, debtors and debtors-in-possession, bankruptcy trustees and receivers.  We handle commercial workout, foreclosure and insolvency proceedings and we represent indenture trustees with respect to troubled public and private bond issues in excess of $100 million.

Representative Clients

  • Bank of America, N.A.
  • Bank of New York
  • Bank One Corporation
  • Dean Witter Commercial Financial Services, Inc.
  • FDIC
  • Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
  • Morgan Stanley
  • NW Natural
  • Pacificorp
  • U.S. Bank National Association