Baker Donelson represents many community and regional financial institutions in connection with organization, governance, capital raising, mergers, acquisitions, branching, regulatory and governmental compliance, legislation, administration, business diversification, lending, bankruptcy, litigation, and investment and merchant banking. We counsel over 100 banks, savings and loans, finance companies, mortgage companies, trust companies, their holding companies, and other similar types of institutions with the structural, regulatory, and corporate matters unique to such businesses. Further, we interact with local, state, and federal government on legislative issues important to our clients. These practice areas complement our general business practice, which regularly provides counsel on finance and general corporate matters, including business combinations, labor and employment issues, debtor problems, and business dissolutions and liquidations. As the 80th largest law firm in the U.S. with more than 650 attorneys, 22 offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C.