Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Mr. Guynn is head of Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group. He has been recognized as a thought-leader on financial regulatory reform and as one of the most widely consulted U.S. legal advisers during the financial crisis. See “In the Red Zone,”The American Lawyer, January 2009 and “For Davis Polk, Dodd-Frank Pays,” The American Lawyer, December 2010.
He has advised the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the principal trade organization for U.S. banks, securities firms and asset managers, all of the U.S.’s six-largest banks and several foreign banks on the Dodd-Frank Act and its regulatory implementation.
His practice focuses on providing strategic bank and regulatory and enforcement advice and advising on M&A and capital markets transactions when the target or issuer is a banking organization or other financial institution. He also advises on bank failures and recapitalizations, corporate governance and internal controls, cross-border collateral transactions, credit risk management, securities settlement systems and payment systems.
Regulatory Counsel, Institute of International Finance
David’s career in law and global finance and his worldwide travel have given him global financial and investment perspectives that are invaluable to Reynolds Group. He is highly regarded by foreign governments, international law firms, financial regulatory agencies and international financial institutions for his significant contributions on matters ranging from cross-border regulation and accounting to dematerialized clearing and settlement and anti-money laundering principles. Prior to joining the Institute of International Finance, Inc. David was a lawyer in international practice with major financial institutions. As Managing Director and Resident Counsel for J.P. Morgan’s Private Client Group, David spearheaded the legal work for a single investment services platform for the bank’s most substantial private clients. He also helped to initiate the Wolfsberg Anti-Money Laundering Principles, which are observed by the world’s major private banks. Before that David was Resident Counsel of J.P. Morgan in Brussels, as operator of Euroclear, the largest clearance and settlement system for internationally traded securities. David began his career at Davis Polk & Wardwell, in their international banking and corporate practice in New York and Paris. David graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School where he was on the Law Review; he also has an A.M. in Modern European History from Harvard University. David received a B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Pomona College, where he was also a Lockheed Leadership Fund Scholar.
S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
David Skeel is the Caryl Louise Boies Visiting Professor of Law at New York University, and the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences (Wiley, 2011); Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From (Oxford University Press, 2005); Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton University Press, 2001); and numerous articles on bankruptcy, corporate law, financial regulation, Christianity and law, and other topics. Professor Skeel has also written commentaries for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture, The Weekly Standard, and other publications.
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Mr. Douglas is a partner in Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group, heading the firm’s bank regulatory practice and focusing on bank restructuring and resolutions and other issues arising from the current banking and financial crisis. He has been involved in some of the most difficult and sensitive matters during the crisis, including advising the boards of directors of Indymac and Bank United, counseling Citigroup with respect to FDIC matters, advising various parties on the fallout from the failure of Washington Mutual and advising various private equity firms on proposed investments in troubled or failed banks.
Mr. Douglas was appointed General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1987 and continued in that capacity through 1989. This was a period of unprecedented stress on the financial system, and he was involved in the major bank failures and restructurings of the late 1980s, participated in the landmark Financial Institutions Regulatory Reform and Restructuring Act of 1989 and assisted in the organization of the Resolution Trust Corporation.
Mr. Douglas is regarded as one of the leading bank insolvency lawyers in the nation.
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Mr. Douglas is a partner in Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group, heading the firm’s bank regulatory practice and focusing on bank restructuring and resolutions and other issues arising from the current banking and financial crisis. He has been involved in some of the most difficult and sensitive matters during the crisis, including advising the boards of directors of Indymac and Bank United, counseling Citigroup with respect to FDIC matters, advising various parties on the fallout from the failure of Washington Mutual and advising various private equity firms on proposed investments in troubled or failed banks.
Mr. Douglas was appointed General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1987 and continued in that capacity through 1989. This was a period of unprecedented stress on the financial system, and he was involved in the major bank failures and restructurings of the late 1980s, participated in the landmark Financial Institutions Regulatory Reform and Restructuring Act of 1989 and assisted in the organization of the Resolution Trust Corporation.
Mr. Douglas is regarded as one of the leading bank insolvency lawyers in the nation.
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Mr. Guynn is head of Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group. He has been recognized as a thought-leader on financial regulatory reform and as one of the most widely consulted U.S. legal advisers during the financial crisis. See “In the Red Zone,”The American Lawyer, January 2009 and “For Davis Polk, Dodd-Frank Pays,” The American Lawyer, December 2010.
He has advised the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the principal trade organization for U.S. banks, securities firms and asset managers, all of the U.S.’s six-largest banks and several foreign banks on the Dodd-Frank Act and its regulatory implementation.
His practice focuses on providing strategic bank and regulatory and enforcement advice and advising on M&A and capital markets transactions when the target or issuer is a banking organization or other financial institution. He also advises on bank failures and recapitalizations, corporate governance and internal controls, cross-border collateral transactions, credit risk management, securities settlement systems and payment systems.
Regulatory Counsel, Institute of International Finance
David’s career in law and global finance and his worldwide travel have given him global financial and investment perspectives that are invaluable to Reynolds Group. He is highly regarded by foreign governments, international law firms, financial regulatory agencies and international financial institutions for his significant contributions on matters ranging from cross-border regulation and accounting to dematerialized clearing and settlement and anti-money laundering principles. Prior to joining the Institute of International Finance, Inc. David was a lawyer in international practice with major financial institutions. As Managing Director and Resident Counsel for J.P. Morgan’s Private Client Group, David spearheaded the legal work for a single investment services platform for the bank’s most substantial private clients. He also helped to initiate the Wolfsberg Anti-Money Laundering Principles, which are observed by the world’s major private banks. Before that David was Resident Counsel of J.P. Morgan in Brussels, as operator of Euroclear, the largest clearance and settlement system for internationally traded securities. David began his career at Davis Polk & Wardwell, in their international banking and corporate practice in New York and Paris. David graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School where he was on the Law Review; he also has an A.M. in Modern European History from Harvard University. David received a B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Pomona College, where he was also a Lockheed Leadership Fund Scholar.
S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
David Skeel is the Caryl Louise Boies Visiting Professor of Law at New York University, and the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences (Wiley, 2011); Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From (Oxford University Press, 2005); Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton University Press, 2001); and numerous articles on bankruptcy, corporate law, financial regulation, Christianity and law, and other topics. Professor Skeel has also written commentaries for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture, The Weekly Standard, and other publications.
Solving the "Too Big to Fail" Problem: Resolution Authority vs. Chapter 14 - Podcast
Randall D. Guynn, David Schraa, David Skeel, John L. Douglas
With the passage of Dodd-Frank, Congress and the administration are proudly announcing the end of...
Solving the "Too Big to Fail" Problem: Resolution Authority vs. Chapter 14