Ellis Painter represents several financial services institutions in such matters as lender liability, financial instruments, lead lender disputes, lease agreements, common law contract and fraud, RICO, and all of the various fraudulent transfer and preference claims that arise out of financial litigation.
Ellis Painter advises financial institutions on the management and avoidance of legal risk. Where disputes arise, we represent those institutions in civil proceedings and in other forms of dispute resolution procedure, including mediation and arbitration. The firm represents its financial clients in federal and state court throughout the State of Georgia and our attorneys regularly represent banks as both plaintiffs and defendants. We have extensive experience in lender liability, letter of credit, breach of contract, fraudulent conveyance and other claims regularly brought by or against banks.
As counsel or general counsel for a number of banking institutions, this firm also handles the full range of transactional needs of such institutions, including compliance with state and federal banking regulations, institution formation, and general administrative legal issues.